Can an RTO still enrol new students in PRM20406?

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 10 January 2013. 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 PRM20406?

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).

PRM20406 Certificate II in Asset Maintenance (Fire Protection Equipment)

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.

PRM20406Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Asset Maintenance (Fire Protection Equipment)
equivalent
CPP20511Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Fire Protection Inspection and Testing
equivalent
CPP20521CurrentCertificate II in Fire Protection Inspection and Testing

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.

PRM20404PRM20406equivalent31 March 2009
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
PRM20406CPP20511equivalent9 January 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for PRM20406 and for its training package PRM04 (release 3.0), 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.

PRM20406_R1.pdfPRM20406 release 1 · product document · published 24 September 2012
PRM20406_R1.docxPRM20406 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is PRM20406 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether PRM20406 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 PRM20406 is made of

training.gov.au lists 28 units for PRM20406. 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 28 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
PRMCMN202A	Provide effective client service	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES03C	Safely move materials and loads in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES04B	Identify fire protection equipment	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES05B	Use portable fire fighting equipment	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES06C	Prepare for installation and servicing operations	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES07B	Maintain quality of work and promote continuous improvement	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES09B	Service portable fire extinguishers and fire blankets in the field	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES10B	Inspect, test and replace fire hose reels in the field	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES11B	Install portable fire extinguishers, fire blankets and battery powered smoke alarms	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES14C	Service portable fire extinguishers in the workshop	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES15B	Service delivery lay flat fire hoses in the workshop	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES16B	Inspect and service delivery lay flat fire hoses and nozzles in the field	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES18B	Hydrostatic test portable and wheeled CO2 fire extinguishers	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES19B	Install and service portable foam liquid proportioning equipment	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES20B	Service wheeled fire extinguishers in the field	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES21C	Service wheeled fire extinguishers in the workshop	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES32A	Work effectively in the fire protection industry	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES33A	Identify fire and smoke doors	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES35A	Inspect and test hinged fire and smoke doors	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES36A	Identify passive fire and smoke containment products and systems	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES37A	Inspect and maintain fire hydrants	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES39A	Inspect and test passive fire and smoke containment products and systems	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES43A	Prevent ozone depleting substance and synthetic greenhouse gas emissions	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES47A	Inspect and test control and indicating equipment	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES48A	Receive and dispatch ozone depleting substance and synthetic greenhouse gas containers	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES49A	Recover, reclaim and fill operations for ozone depleting substances and synthetic greenhouse gases	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES50A	Monitor storage operations for ozone depleting substances and synthetic greenhouse gases	`N/A`	not current
PRMPFES53A	Participate in workplace safety arrangements	`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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