When must new enrolments into DEF52212 stop?

New enrolments are not permitted from 17 August 2018 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in DEF52212?

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).

DEF52212 Diploma of Compliance — superseded, not equivalent

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.

DEF52212Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Compliance
not equivalent
DEF50317CurrentDiploma of Compliance

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.

PUA52210DEF52212equivalent14 March 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
DEF52212DEF50317not equivalent16 August 2017
Core units decreased from 8 to 7 Qualification packaging rules increased from 13 to 15 units of competency

Is DEF52212 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEF52212 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Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.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 DEF52212 is made of

training.gov.au lists 34 units for DEF52212: 8 core and 26 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 8 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
BSBCOM501B	Identify and interpret compliance requirements	not current
DEFCP001A	Evaluate and review safety cases	not current
DEFCP002A	Apply knowledge of regulatory systems	not current
DEFCP004A	Apply knowledge of risk assessment	not current
DEFCP005A	Apply knowledge of risk management	not current
DEFCP006A	Apply knowledge of safety case development process	not current
DEFCP007A	Provide specialist safety case advice	not current
DEFCP008	Apply knowledge of WHS legislation	not current

Elective units 26 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
BSBOHS509A	Ensure a safe workplace	not current
BSBPMG503A	Manage project time	not current
BSBPMG504A	Manage project costs	not current
BSBPMG506A	Manage project human resources	not current
BSBPMG507A	Manage project communications	not current
BSBPMG509A	Manage project procurement	not current
BSBSUS301A	Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices	not current
PSPFIN501A	Apply public sector financial policies and processes	not current
PSPGOV504B	Undertake research and analysis	not current
PSPGOV512A	Use complex workplace communication strategies	not current
PSPGOV513A	Refine complex workplace documents	not current
PSPGOV515A	Develop and use political nous	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
PSPPM601B	Direct complex project activities	not current
PUACOM002B	Provide services to clients	not current
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
TAAASS401C	Plan and organise assessment	not current
TAAASS402C	Assess competence	not current
TAAASS404B	Participate in assessment validation	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 28 August 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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