Can an RTO still enrol new students in PUA21010?

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 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 PUA21010?

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).

PUA21010 Certificate II in Public Safety (Aquatic Rescue)

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.

PUA21010Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Public Safety (Aquatic Rescue)
equivalent
PUA21012Superseded — not equivalentCertificate II in Public Safety (Aquatic Rescue)
not equivalent
PUA20119CurrentCertificate II in Public Safety (Aquatic Rescue)

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.

PUA21004PUA21010equivalent10 February 2011
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
PUA21010PUA21012equivalent16 August 2012
Packaging rules wording reviewed. Units updated. Elective groupings changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for PUA21010 and for its training package PUA00 (release 8.1), 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.

PUA21010_R1.pdfPUA21010 release 1 · product document · published 20 July 2012
PUA21010_R1.docxPUA21010 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is PUA21010 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether PUA21010 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 PUA21010 is made of

training.gov.au lists 23 units for PUA21010. 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 23 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
HLTFA201A	Provide basic emergency life support	`N/A`	not current
PUACOM001C	Communicate in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
PUACOM002B	Provide services to clients	`N/A`	not current
PUAEQU001B	Prepare, maintain and test response equipment	`N/A`	not current
PUAOHS001C	Follow defined occupational health and safety policies and procedures	`N/A`	not current
PUAOPE009C	Navigate in an aquatic environment	`N/A`	not current
PUAOPE013A	Operate communications systems and equipment	`N/A`	not current
PUASAR012C	Apply surf awareness and self-rescue skills	`N/A`	not current
PUASAR013A	Participate in an aquatic rescue operation	`N/A`	not current
PUASES012A	Work as a team member in an emergency operations centre	`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
PUAVEH001B	Drive vehicles under operational conditions	`N/A`	not current
SRCAQU003B	Respond to an aquatic emergency using basic water rescue techniques	`N/A`	not current
SRCAQU006B	Supervise clients at an aquatic facility or environment	`N/A`	not current
SRCAQU014B	Assist participants with a disability during aquatic activities	`N/A`	not current
TDMMC807B	MANOEUVRE A VESSEL WITHIN THE LIMITS OF RESPONSIBILITY OF A MASTER 5	`N/A`	not current
TDMMF1107B	SURVIVE AT SEA IN THE EVENT OF VESSEL ABANDONMENT	`N/A`	not current
TDMMF5407A	OBSERVE SAFETY AND EMERGENCY PROCEDURES ON A COASTAL VESSEL	`N/A`	not current
TDMMF5507A	FIGHT AND EXTINGUISH FIRES ON BOARD A COASTAL VESSEL	`N/A`	not current
TDMMF5607A	OBSERVE PERSONAL SAFETY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES	`N/A`	not current
TDMMF6207A	PREVENT, CONTROL AND FIGHT FIRES ON BOARD AN OCEAN-GOING VESSEL	`N/A`	not current
TDMMR4307B	ASSIST IN MOORING AND ANCHOR HANDLING ACTIVITIES	`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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