Can an RTO still enrol new students in DEF30912?

For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 22 October 2016. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in DEF30912?

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

DEF30912 Certificate III in Explosive Ordnance Operations

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

DEF30912Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Explosive Ordnance Operations
equivalent
DEF32415Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Explosive Ordnance Operations
equivalent
DEF30320CurrentCertificate III in Explosive Ordnance Operations

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

PUA30910DEF30912equivalent14 March 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
DEF30912DEF32415equivalent21 October 2015
DEF unit codes updated. Imported units updated.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for DEF30912 and for its training package DEF12 (release 2.0), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

DEF30912_R2.pdfDEF30912 release 2 · product document · published 26 January 2013
DEF30912_R2.docxDEF30912 release 2 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is DEF30912 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEF30912 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What DEF30912 is made of

training.gov.au lists 39 units for DEF30912: 4 core and 35 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 4 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
BSBCMN311B	Maintain workplace safety	not current
DEFEO101D	Work safely with explosive ordnance	not current
DEFEQ001C	Work with equity and diversity	not current
TLID1001A	Shift materials safely using manual handling methods	not current

Elective units 35 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
BSBSUS201A	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	not current
DEFCA005B	Operate communications equipment	not current
DEFCM118B	Act as a range safety officer on a permanent range	not current
DEFCM119B	Conduct basic range practices on a permanent range	not current
DEFEO203C	Dispose of non-explosive dangerous goods	not current
DEFEO204C	Examine and certify free from explosive ordnance	not current
DEFEO301D	Package ammunition	not current
DEFEO302D	Unpackage ammunition	not current
DEFEO303D	Monitor explosive ordnance environmental conditions	not current
DEFEO501D	Conduct explosive ordnance inspection	not current
DEFEO502D	Conduct external explosive ordnance maintenance	not current
DEFEO503C	Conduct explosive ordnance packaging inspection	not current
DEFEO508D	Conduct electrical/electronic circuitry tests	not current
DEFEO521A	Refurbish explosive ordnance packaging	not current
DEFEO703C	Supervise military explosive ordnance task	not current
DEFEO714C	Conduct underwater explosive demolitions	not current
DEFRI001B	Treat risk within Defence at an operational level	not current
DEFRI002B	Conduct risk assessment in a Defence environment	not current
HLTFA201A	Provide basic emergency life support	not current
HLTFA301B	Apply first aid	not current
PUAEMR001B	Establish context and develop risk evaluation criteria	not current
PUAEMR002B	Identify, analyse and evaluate risk	not current
PUAEMR003B	Determine treatment strategies	not current
PUAEMR004B	Manage treatment strategy implementation	not current
PUAEMR006B	Treat risk at an operational level	not current
PUAEMR007B	Conduct risk assessment	not current
PUAPOLFC003B	Detect, record and collect physical evidence	not current
PUAWER004B	Respond to workplace emergencies	not current
TLIA1507C	Complete receival/despatch documentation	not current
TLIB607C	Carry out inspection of vehicles designed to carry special loads	not current

Show the remaining 5 elective units

Code	Unit	In this product
TLIC707C	Operate vehicle carrying special loads	not current
TLID1207C	Operate specialised load shifting equipment	not current
TLID1507D	Identify and label explosives and dangerous goods	not current
TLID1607D	Load and unload explosives and dangerous goods	not current
TLIF207C	Conduct housekeeping activities	not current

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 14 October 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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