Can an RTO still enrol new students in DEF32812?

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 17 August 2018. 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 DEF32812?

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).

DEF32812 Certificate III in Preventive Health

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.

DEF32812Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Preventive Health
not equivalent
DEF30217Deleted from the registerCertificate III in Preventive Health

The register does not list a current endpoint for this chain: DEF30217 is the last product it points at, and DEF30217 is not marked current either.

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.

PUA32809DEF32812equivalent14 March 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
DEF32812DEF30217not equivalent16 August 2017
Core units increased from 3 to 4

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for DEF32812 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.

DEF32812_R2.pdfDEF32812 release 2 · product document · published 26 January 2013
DEF32812_R2.docxDEF32812 release 2 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is DEF32812 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEF32812 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 DEF32812 is made of

training.gov.au lists 35 units for DEF32812: 3 core and 32 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 3 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
BSBOHS301B	Apply knowledge of OHS legislation in the workplace	not current
BSBWOR301A	Organise personal work priorities and development	not current
DEFPH001A	Contribute to environmental health operations	not current

Elective units 32 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
BSBFLM303C	Contribute to effective workplace relationships	not current
BSBFLM312B	Contribute to team effectiveness	not current
BSBINM301A	Organise workplace information	not current
BSBOHS302B	Participate effectively in OHS communication and consultative processes	not current
BSBOHS303B	Contribute to OHS hazard identification and risk assessment	not current
BSBOHS304B	Contribute to OHS hazard control	not current
BSBOHS305B	Contribute to OHS issue resolution	not current
BSBOHS306B	Contribute to implementing emergency prevention activities and response procedures	not current
BSBOHS307B	Participate in OHS investigations	not current
BSBSUS201A	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	not current
BSBWRT301A	Write simple documents	not current
CPCCVE1001A	Undertake a basic construction project	not current
DEFPH002A	Assist with quick assessment of disease outbreak	not current
DEFPH003A	Operate environmental measuring devices	not current
DEFPH004A	Undertake a vector borne diseases surveillance program	not current
DEFPH005A	Assist with field hygiene and sanitation	not current
DEFPH006A	Monitor water handling and distribution practices	not current
DEFPH007A	Conduct chlorine dosing of water at the point of supply	not current
FDFOPTISP2A	Implement sampling procedures	not current
HLTFA301B	Apply first aid	not current
MEM18001C	Use hand tools	not current
MEM18002B	Use power tools/hand held operations	not current
NWP210B	Perform basic water quality tests	not current
NWP218B	Perform and record sampling	not current
PRMPM02B	Assess pest management options	not current
PRMPM05B	Modify environment to manage pests	not current
PRMPM06B	Apply pesticide to manage pests	not current
PRMPM07B	Implement a pest management plan	not current
PRMPM09B	Advise client on pest management options	not current
PRMPM11B	Conduct fumigation	not current

Show the remaining 2 elective units

Code	Unit	In this product
PUACOM002B	Provide services to clients	not current
PUAOPE004B	Conduct briefings/debriefings	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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