Can an RTO still enrol new students in DEF51312?

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 DEF51312?

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).

DEF51312 Diploma of 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.

DEF51312Superseded — equivalentDiploma of Explosive Ordnance Manufacture
equivalent
DEF52215Superseded — equivalentDiploma of Explosive Ordnance Manufacture
equivalent
DEF50120CurrentDiploma of 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.

PUA51310DEF51312equivalent14 March 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
DEF51312DEF52215equivalent21 October 2015
DEF unit codes updated. Imported units updated. DEFEO210C removed. DEFGEN026 added to electives.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for DEF51312 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.

DEF51312_R2.pdfDEF51312 release 2 · product document · published 26 January 2013
DEF51312_R2.docxDEF51312 release 2 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is DEF51312 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEF51312 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 DEF51312 is made of

training.gov.au lists 52 units for DEF51312. It does not mark them core or elective: the unit grid records N/A for every one of them. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. What it takes to complete the product is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Units listed 52 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBMGT502B	Manage people performance	`N/A`	not current
BSBMGT515A	Manage operational plan	`N/A`	not current
BSBMGT516A	Facilitate continuous improvement	`N/A`	not current
BSBOHS509A	Ensure a safe workplace	`N/A`	not current
BSBSUS301A	Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices	`N/A`	not current
BSBWOR501A	Manage personal work priorities and professional development	`N/A`	not current
BSBWOR502A	Ensure team effectiveness	`N/A`	not current
DEFEO101D	Work safely with explosive ordnance	`N/A`	not current
DEFEO201C	Respond to fire	`N/A`	not current
DEFEO205C	Conduct technical explosive ordnance investigations	`N/A`	not current
DEFEO206C	Apply a knowledge of the service environment	`N/A`	not current
DEFEO210C	Manage explosive ordnance engineering and logistics processes	`N/A`	not current
DEFEO211D	Apply a knowledge of explosive ordnance	`N/A`	not current
DEFEO212C	License explosive ordnance facilities and potential explosive sites	`N/A`	not current
DEFEO602C	Plan explosive ordnance trials	`N/A`	not current
DEFEO603C	Conduct explosive ordnance trials	`N/A`	not current
DEFEO604C	Perform explosive tests, measurements and analyses	`N/A`	not current
DEFEO605D	Conduct explosive ordnance firings	`N/A`	not current
DEFEO606D	Develop unique explosives	`N/A`	not current
DEFEO607C	Determine the properties of explosive ordnance	`N/A`	not current
DEFEO709D	Apply explosive ordnance design principles	`N/A`	not current
MSACMS600A	Develop a competitive manufacturing system	`N/A`	not current
MSACMS601A	Analyse and map a value chain	`N/A`	not current
MSACMS602A	Manage a value chain	`N/A`	not current
MSACMS603A	Develop manufacturing related business plans	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT452A	Apply statistics to processes in manufacturing	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT620A	Develop quick changeover procedures	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT621A	Develop a Just in Time (JIT) system	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT630A	Optimise cost of product	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT631A	Undertake value analysis of product costs in terms of customer requirements	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 22 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
MSACMT640A	Manage 5S system in a manufacturing environment	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT650A	Determine and improve process capability	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT660A	Develop the application of enterprise systems in manufacturing	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT661A	Determine and establish information collection requirements and processes	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT670A	Develop and manage sustainable energy practices	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT671A	Develop and manage sustainable environmental practices	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT675A	Facilitate the development of a new product	`N/A`	not current
MSACMT681A	Develop a proactive maintenance strategy	`N/A`	not current
MSAPMOHS210B	Undertake first response to non-fire incidents	`N/A`	not current
MSAPMOPS401A	Trial new process or product	`N/A`	not current
PMASUP540B	Analyse equipment performance	`N/A`	not current
PUACOM002B	Provide services to clients	`N/A`	not current
PUACOM007B	Liaise with other organisations	`N/A`	not current
PUAEMR001B	Establish context and develop risk evaluation criteria	`N/A`	not current
PUAEMR002B	Identify, analyse and evaluate risk	`N/A`	not current
PUAEMR003B	Determine treatment strategies	`N/A`	not current
PUAEMR004B	Manage treatment strategy implementation	`N/A`	not current
PUAEMR005B	Design and manage activities which exercise elements of emergency management	`N/A`	not current
PUAEMR006B	Treat risk at an operational level	`N/A`	not current
PUAEMR007B	Conduct risk assessment	`N/A`	not current
PUATEA003B	Lead, manage and develop teams	`N/A`	not current
TLID107C	Shift materials safely using manual handling methods	`N/A`	not current

The register publishes this unit grid without a core or elective flag, so this page does not split it into core and elective. "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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