Can an RTO still enrol new students in DEF32312?

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 DEF32312?

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).

DEF32312 Certificate III in Explosive Ordnance Manufacture

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.

DEF32312Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Explosive Ordnance Manufacture
equivalent
DEF32115Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Explosive Ordnance Manufacture
equivalent
DEF30220CurrentCertificate III in Explosive Ordnance Manufacture

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.

PUA32310DEF32312equivalent14 March 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
DEF32312DEF32115equivalent21 October 2015
DEF unit codes updated. Imported units updated. DEFEO208C and DEFEO509D removed from elective units. DEFGEN024 added to elective units.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for DEF32312 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.

DEF32312_R2.pdfDEF32312 release 2 · product document · published 26 January 2013
DEF32312_R2.docxDEF32312 release 2 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is DEF32312 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEF32312 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 DEF32312 is made of

training.gov.au lists 69 units for DEF32312: 4 core and 65 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
MSAPMOHS210B	Undertake first response to non-fire incidents	not current
TLID1001A	Shift materials safely using manual handling methods	not current

Elective units 65 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
BSBSUS201A	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	not current
DEFCA318	Shift loads manually utilising non motorised equipment	not current
DEFEO201C	Respond to fire	not current
DEFEO203C	Dispose of non-explosive dangerous goods	not current
DEFEO206C	Apply a knowledge of the service environment	not current
DEFEO207C	Inspect explosive ordnance facilities	not current
DEFEO208C	Supervise explosive ordnance engineering and logistics processes	not current
DEFEO401D	Load and unload platforms	not current
DEFEO501D	Conduct explosive ordnance inspection	not current
DEFEO506D	Fuze and defuze explosive ordnance	not current
DEFEO507D	Assemble and disassemble explosive components	not current
DEFEO509D	Perform purging	not current
DEFEO701C	Dispose of explosive ordnance	not current
DEFEO702D	Destroy unexploded ordnance	not current
DEFEO716C	Test for explosive substances	not current
DEFEQ001C	Work with equity and diversity	not current
DEFOH014B	Test confined space environment	not current
DEFOH015B	Control entry to confined spaces	not current
DEFOH016B	Monitor and reoprt on hazardous substances safety	not current
MSACMS401A	Ensure process improvements are sustained	not current
MSACMT270A	Use sustainable energy practices	not current
MSACMT460A	Facilitate the use of planning software systems in manufacturing	not current
MSACMT461A	Facilitate SCADA systems in a manufacturing team or work area	not current
MSAPMOHS300A	Facilitate the implementation of OHS for a work group	not current
MSAPMSUP390A	Use structured problem solving tools	not current
MSS402001A	Apply competitive systems and practices	not current
MSS402002A	Sustain process improvements	not current
MSS402010A	Manage the impact of change on own work	not current
MSS402020A	Apply quick changeover procedures	not current
MSS402021A	Apply Just in Time procedures	not current

Show the remaining 35 elective units

Code	Unit	In this product
MSS402030A	Apply cost factors to work practices	not current
MSS402031A	Interpret product costs in terms of customer requirements	not current
MSS402040A	Apply 5S procedures	not current
MSS402050A	Monitor process capability	not current
MSS402051A	Apply quality standards	not current
MSS402060A	Use planning software systems in operations	not current
MSS402061A	Use SCADA systems in operations	not current
MSS402080A	Undertake root cause analysis	not current
MSS402081A	Contribute to the application of a proactive maintenance strategy	not current
MSS403001A	Implement competitive systems and practices	not current
MSS403010A	Facilitate change in an organisation implementing competitive systems and practices	not current
MSS403021A	Facilitate a Just in Time system	not current
MSS403030A	Improve cost factors in work practices	not current
MSS403032A	Analyse manual handling processes	not current
MSS403040A	Facilitate and improve implementation of 5S	not current
MSS403051A	Mistake proof an operational process	not current
MSS404050A	Undertake process capability improvements	not current
MSS404052A	Apply statistics to operational processes	not current
MSS404081A	Undertake proactive maintenance analyses	not current
MSS404082A	Assist in implementing a proactive maintenance strategy	not current
PMAOHS310B	Investigate incidents	not current
PMAOPS300B	Operate a production unit	not current
PMAOPS305B	Operate process control systems	not current
PMAOPS307B	Transfer bulk fluids into/out of storage facility	not current
PUAEMR009B	Facilitate emergency risk assessment	not current
PUAEMR027	Assess operational risk	not current
PUAEMR030	Manage and evaluate emergency management exercises	not current
PUAEMR031	Design emergency management exercises	not current
TLIB3006A	Carry out inspection of vehicles designed to carry special loads	not current
TLIC3063A	Operate vehicle carrying special loads	not current
TLID2012A	Operate specialised load shifting equipment	not current
TLID2016A	Load and unload explosives and dangerous goods	not current
TLID3015A	Identify and label explosives and dangerous goods	not current
TLIF1002A	Conduct housekeeping activities	not current
TLIF2012A	Apply safe procedures when handling/transporting dangerous goods or explosives	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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