Can an RTO still enrol new students in DEF51412?

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 DEF51412?

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).

DEF51412 Diploma of Explosive Ordnance Proof and Experimental

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.

DEF51412Superseded — equivalentDiploma of Explosive Ordnance Proof and Experimental
equivalent
DEF52315Superseded — equivalentDiploma of Explosive Ordnance Proof and Experimental
equivalent
DEF50220Superseded — equivalentDiploma of Explosive Ordnance Proof and Experimental
equivalent
DEF51022CurrentDiploma of Explosive Ordnance Proof and Experimental

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.

PUA51410DEF51412equivalent14 March 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
DEF51412DEF52315equivalent21 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 DEF51412 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.

DEF51412_R2.pdfDEF51412 release 2 · product document · published 26 January 2013
DEF51412_R2.docxDEF51412 release 2 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is DEF51412 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEF51412 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 DEF51412 is made of

training.gov.au lists 42 units for DEF51412: 5 core and 37 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 5 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
DEFEO101D	Work safely with explosive ordnance	not current
DEFEQ001C	Work with equity and diversity	not current
HLTFA211A	Provide basic emergency life support	not current
PSPOHS301A	Contribute to workplace safety	not current
TLID1001A	Shift materials safely using manual handling methods	not current

Elective units 37 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
BSBMGT502B	Manage people performance	not current
BSBSUS301A	Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices	not current
BSBWOR501A	Manage personal work priorities and professional development	not current
BSBWOR502A	Ensure team effectiveness	not current
DEFCM008B	Provide technical advice	not current
DEFEO205C	Conduct technical explosive ordnance investigations	not current
DEFEO210C	Manage explosive ordnance engineering and logistics processes	not current
DEFEO709D	Apply explosive ordnance design principles	not current
DEFEQ003B	Manage equity and diversity	not current
DEFOH006B	Develop radio frequency radiation safety plans	not current
DEFOH008B	Develop ionising radiation safety plans	not current
DEFOH011B	Develop laser safety plans	not current
DEFRM201B	Develop and maintain range standing orders	not current
DEFRM202B	Approve training area and range activities	not current
DEFRM204B	Monitor and control training area and range activities	not current
DEFRM205B	Manage emergency operations	not current
DEFRM206B	Conduct range inspections	not current
DEFRM208B	Manage training area and range contamination	not current
DEFRM209B	Supervise contractors	not current
DEFRM210B	Monitor and implement environmental plans and procedures	not current
DEFTE001A	Plan testing and evaluation processes	not current
DEFTE002A	Prepare testing and evaluation processes	not current
DEFTE003A	Conduct testing processes	not current
DEFTE004A	Evaluate testing	not current
DEFTE005A	Produce test and evaluation reports	not current
PSPPM501B	Design complex projects	not current
PSPPM502B	Manage complex projects	not current
PSPPM503B	Close complex projects	not current
PSPPM504A	Carry out complex project activities	not current
PUACOM002B	Provide services to clients	not current

Show the remaining 7 elective units

Code	Unit	In this product
PUACOM007B	Liaise with other organisations	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
PUATEA003B	Lead, manage and develop teams	not current
PUAWER004B	Respond to workplace emergencies	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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