Can an RTO still enrol new students in DEF55115?

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 DEF55115?

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).

DEF55115 Diploma of Range Management

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.

DEF55115Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Range Management
not equivalent
DEF50717Superseded — equivalentDiploma of Range Control and Management
equivalent
DEF50722CurrentDiploma of Range Control and Management

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.

DEF50712DEF55115not equivalent21 October 2015
Supersedes Diploma of Range Management. Not equivalent.
DEF55115DEF50717not equivalent16 August 2017
Modifications made to Elective units. Two imported unit codes changed. One imported unit code and title changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for DEF55115 and for its training package DEF (release 7.1), 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.

DEF55115_R1.pdfDEF55115 release 1 · product document · published 22 October 2015
DEF55115_R1.docxDEF55115 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024
DEF release 7.1 Companion Volume Mapping Information V1Companion Volume Supporting Material · DEF release 7.1 · XLSX · 16 June 2026
DEF release 7.1 Companion Volume V1 June 2026Companion Volume · DEF release 7.1 · PDF · 16 June 2026

Is DEF55115 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEF55115 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 DEF55115 is made of

training.gov.au lists 34 units for DEF55115: 6 core and 28 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 6 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
DEFGEN005	Develop relationships with other organisations	current
DEFGEN011	Interpret policy, legislation and regulations	current
DEFRNG001	Provide technical advice on ranges and training areas	not current
DEFRNG002	Develop and maintain range standing orders	not current
PUAEMR022	Establish context for emergency risk assessment	not current
PUAEMR023	Assess emergency risk	not current

Elective units 28 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
BSBAUD402	Participate in a quality audit	not current
BSBAUD501	Initiate a quality audit	not current
BSBAUD503	Lead a quality audit	not current
BSBAUD504	Report on a quality audit	not current
BSBCOM403	Provide education and training on compliance requirements and systems	not current
BSBCOM404	Promote and liaise on compliance requirements, systems and related issues	not current
BSBCOM501	Identify and interpret compliance requirements	not current
BSBCOM502	Evaluate and review compliance	not current
BSBCOM601	Research compliance requirements and issues	not current
BSBSUS301A	Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices	not current
DEFRNG003	Approve training area and range activities	not current
DEFRNG004	Monitor and control training area and range activities	not current
DEFRNG005	Manage emergency operations	current
DEFRNG006	Conduct range inspections	not current
DEFRNG007	Conduct training area inspections	not current
DEFRNG008	Manage training area and range contamination	current
DEFRNG010	Monitor and implement environmental plans and procedures	current
DEFRNG011	Site range complexes	not current
DEFRNG012	Manage training areas and ranges	current
PSPPROC406B	Procure goods and services	not current
PUAEMR024	Develop treatment options for emergency risk	not current
PUAEMR025	Manage risk treatment implementation	not current
TAEASS301B	Contribute to assessment	not current
TAEASS401B	Plan assessment activities and processes	not current
TAEASS402A	Assess competence	not current
TAEASS502B	Design and develop assessment tools	not current
TAEDEL301A	Provide work skill instruction	not current
TAEDEL402A	Plan, organise and facilitate learning in the workplace	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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