UK CPCS Card Renewal

The CPCS Competent Operator Card (Blue Card) can be renewed 3 months prior to its expiry and up to 5 years after its expiry date. If your card is more than 5 years since its expiry date please contact the office.

To renew your card you will need to complete the relevant CPD Module. This online course ensures that your knowledge and skills for each plant category on your card remain current. The cuorse includes short questions-and-answer sections to check your understanding, but there are no tests with minimum pass marks. 

To renew your CPCS Competent Operator Card (Blue Card) you need to:

• Pass the Health, Safety & Environment test relevant to your card
• Pass the CPCS Renewal Test relevant tot the categories on your card
• Provide proof of on-going practical experience, such as a log book
• Complete the F1/3 Renewal Application Form

To check which Renewal CPD modules you need to take, you can check this online -  Renewal Test Tool

Operatives - Health, Safety & Environment test

This test consists of 50 multiple choice questions to be completed within 45 minutes. To Pass you need to answer at least 45 out of 50 questions correctly. To fully prepare for the test we recommend that you purchase the App from either Google Play or the App Store.

Managers & Professionals - Health, Safety & Environment test

This test consists of 50 multiple choice questions to be completed within 45 minutes. To Pass you need to answer at least 45 out of 50 questions correctly. To fully prepare for the test we recommend that you purchase the App from either Google Play or the App Store.

CPCS Card

Unemployed

If you are unemployed and seeking work, you may be eligible for funding from the Department of Social Protection to cover all, or some of the costs of your training. (means depending, you may be entitled to up to €1000).

Candidates who wish to avail of this must make an appointment with a case officer in their local Intreo office, discuss their case & apply for funding. The candidate will receive a funding application form which they must sign & bring/post to us. Upon completion, we will send this back to the case officer who will then review the funding application.

Upon receiving funding approval in the post from the Department of Social Protection, candidates must then call us to reserve a place on our course. We cannot confirm a place on our course until funding approval is gained.

Employed

If employed within the private sector or are a sole trader, there may also be funding assistance available through Skillnet funding. Skillnet may fund a percentage of your training, if eligible. For more details on this, please contact us on 074 91 27786.