When must new enrolments into PUA20701 stop?

New enrolments are not permitted from 13 March 2014 — 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 PUA20701?

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).

PUA20701 Certificate II in Public Safety (Firefighting Operations)

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.

PUA20701Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Public Safety (Firefighting Operations)
equivalent
PUA20713Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Public Safety (Firefighting Operations)
equivalent
PUA20719CurrentCertificate II in Public Safety (Firefighting 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.

PUA20701PUA20713equivalent12 March 2013
New units added. Pre-requisites updated. Imported units updated.

Is PUA20701 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether PUA20701 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Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.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 PUA20701 is made of

training.gov.au lists 26 units for PUA20701. 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 26 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
PUACOM001C	Communicate in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
PUACOM002B	Provide services to clients	`N/A`	not current
PUAEME001B	Provide emergency care	`N/A`	not current
PUAEQU001B	Prepare, maintain and test response equipment	`N/A`	not current
PUAFIR201B	Prevent injury	`N/A`	not current
PUAFIR202B	Respond to isolated/remote structure fire	`N/A`	not current
PUAFIR203B	Respond to urban fire	`N/A`	not current
PUAFIR204B	Respond to wildfire	`N/A`	not current
PUAFIR205B	Respond to aviation incident (specialist)	`N/A`	not current
PUAFIR206B	Check installed fire safety systems	`N/A`	not current
PUAFIR207B	Operate breathing apparatus open circuit	`N/A`	not current
PUAFIR208B	Participate in community safety activities	`N/A`	not current
PUAFIR209B	Work safely around aircraft	`N/A`	not current
PUAFIR210B	Undertake hover-exit operations from helicopter	`N/A`	not current
PUAFIR211B	Undertake helicopter winch operations	`N/A`	not current
PUAFIR212B	Rappel from helicopter	`N/A`	not current
PUALAW001B	Protect and preserve incident scene	`N/A`	not current
PUAOHS001C	Follow defined occupational health and safety policies and procedures	`N/A`	not current
PUAOPE002B	Operate communications systems and equipment	`N/A`	not current
PUAOPE013A	Operate communications systems and equipment	`N/A`	not current
PUASAR001B	Participate in a rescue operation	`N/A`	not current
PUASAR008B	Search as a member of a land search team	`N/A`	not current
PUASAR022A	Participate in a rescue operation	`N/A`	not current
PUASAR023A	Participate in an urban search and rescue Category 1	`N/A`	not current
PUATEA001B	Work in a team	`N/A`	not current
PUATEA004D	Work effectively in a public safety organisation	`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 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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