PUA20619 Certificate II in Public Safety (Firefighting and Emergency Operations)

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for PUA20619 ended on 14 December 2022 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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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 16 December 2023. 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.

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).

A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments in this product are not permitted today, so a course page advertising it is not permitted either — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Qualification
Training package
PUA — Public Safety
Currency period ends
14 December 2022
Latest release
Release 3 · 23 March 2022 · 3 releases in all
Supersedes
PUA20613
Superseded by
PUA20622 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. PUA20619Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Public Safety (Firefighting and Emergency Operations)
  2. equivalent
  3. PUA20622CurrentCertificate II in Public Safety (Firefighting and Emergency Operations)

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.

  • PUA20613PUA20619equivalent15 July 2019

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

  • PUA20619PUA20622equivalent15 December 2022

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

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for PUA20619 and for its training package PUA (release 6.0), 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.

Is PUA20619 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether PUA20619 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.

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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 PUA20619 is made of

training.gov.au lists 26 units for PUA20619: 8 core and 18 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

CodeUnitIn this product
HLTAID011Provide First Aidcurrent
PUAEQU001Prepare, maintain and test response equipmentcurrent
PUAFIR203Respond to urban firecurrent
PUAFIR207Operate breathing apparatus open circuitcurrent
PUAFIR210Prevent injurycurrent
PUAOPE013Operate communications systems and equipmentcurrent
PUASAR022Participate in a rescue operationcurrent
PUATEA001Work in a teamcurrent

Elective units 18 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
FWPCOT2256Trim and cut felled treesnot current
PUACOM001Communicate in the workplacecurrent
PUACOM002Provide services to clientscurrent
PUAFIR015Undertake helicopter winch operationscurrent
PUAFIR016Undertake hover-exit operations from helicoptercurrent
PUAFIR017Work safely around aircraftcurrent
PUAFIR204Respond to wildfirecurrent
PUAFIR205Respond to aviation incident (specialist)current
PUAFIR206Check installed fire safety systemscurrent
PUAFIR208Participate in community safety activitiescurrent
PUAFIR212Rappel from helicoptercurrent
PUAFIR220Respond to isolated structure firecurrent
PUAFIR309Operate pumpscurrent
PUALAW001Protect and preserve incident scenecurrent
PUASAR001Perform land based swiftwater and floodwater rescue and recoverycurrent
PUASAR023Participate in a first response urban search and rescue Category 1current
PUATEA004Work effectively in a public safety organisationcurrent
PUAWHS001Follow defined work, health and safety policies and procedurescurrent

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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