FWPCOT3238 Operate a pole saw

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for FWPCOT3238 ended on 2 December 2020 — 5 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 4 December 2021 — 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.

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).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
FWP — Forest and Wood Products Training Package
Currency period ends
2 December 2020
Latest release
Release 2 · 21 February 2018 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
FPICOT3238B
Superseded by
FWPCOT3301 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.

  1. FWPCOT3238Superseded — equivalentOperate a pole saw
  2. equivalent
  3. FWPCOT3301CurrentTrim trees using a pole saw

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.

  • FPICOT3238BFWPCOT3238equivalent12 May 2016

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

  • FWPCOT3238FWPCOT3301equivalent3 December 2020

    Retitled, Minor updates to Application, Performance Criteria and Knowledge Evidence. Added new Performance Criteria Updated Foundation Skills, Performance Evidence and Assessment Conditions.

Is FWPCOT3238 on your scope?

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Where FWPCOT3238 is used

training.gov.au lists FWPCOT3238 inside 6 training products, 1 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for FWPCOT3238 in that product.

Current products 1 listed

CodeTraining productTypeFWPCOT3238 is
AHC20520Certificate II in ArboricultureQualificationcore

Products no longer current 5 listed

The register still records FWPCOT3238 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeFWPCOT3238 is
AHC20516Certificate II in ArboricultureQualificationelective
AHC30716Certificate III in HorticultureQualificationelective
AHC30816Certificate III in ArboricultureQualificationcore
AHC30820Certificate III in ArboricultureQualificationelective
FWP30116Certificate III in Forest Growing and ManagementQualificationelective

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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