PUA30319 Certificate III in Public Safety (Aquatic Search and Rescue)

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for PUA30319 ended on 14 December 2022 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 16 December 2023 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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 2 · 23 March 2022 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
PUA31312
Superseded by
PUA30322 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. PUA30319Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Public Safety (Aquatic Search and Rescue)
  2. equivalent
  3. PUA30322CurrentCertificate III in Public Safety (Aquatic Search and 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.

  • PUA31312PUA30319equivalent15 July 2019

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

  • PUA30319PUA30322equivalent15 December 2022

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

Is PUA30319 on your scope?

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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 PUA30319 is made of

training.gov.au lists 34 units for PUA30319: 6 core and 28 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 6 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
HLTAID011Provide First Aidcurrent
PUACOM001Communicate in the workplacecurrent
PUAOPE013Operate communications systems and equipmentcurrent
PUASAR011Search as a member of an aquatic search teamcurrent
PUATEA004Work effectively in a public safety organisationcurrent
PUAWHS002Maintain safety at an incident scenecurrent

Elective units 28 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBTWK201Work effectively with otherscurrent
HLTAID013Provide First Aid in remote or isolated sitecurrent
HLTAID014Provide Advanced First Aidcurrent
HLTAID015Provide advanced resuscitation and oxygen therapycurrent
PMAWHS214Undertake helicopter safety and escapecurrent
PUACOM002Provide services to clientscurrent
PUAEME003Administer oxygen in an emergencynot current
PUAEME004Provide emergency care for suspected spinal injurynot current
PUAEME005Provide pain managementnot current
PUAEMR005Treat operational riskcurrent
PUAEMR006Assess operational riskcurrent
PUAEQU001Prepare, maintain and test response equipmentcurrent
PUAOPE009Navigate in an aquatic environmentcurrent
PUAOPE010Operate an automated external defibrillator in an emergencycurrent
PUAOPE012Control a Level 1 incidentcurrent
PUAOPE027Undertake beach safety management activitiescurrent
PUASAR014Operate and maintain a small powercraft and motor for rescue operationscurrent
PUASAR015Crew small powercraft in a rescue operationcurrent
PUASAR016Operate and maintain a personal water craft for rescue operationscurrent
PUASAR017Undertake advanced surf rescuecurrent
PUASES012Work as a team member in an emergency operations centrecurrent
PUATEA002Work autonomouslycurrent
PUAVEH001Drive vehicles under operational conditionscurrent
PUAWHS001Follow defined work, health and safety policies and procedurescurrent
SISCAQU002Perform basic water rescuesnot current
SISCAQU006Supervise clients in aquatic locationsnot current
SISCAQU007Perform advanced water rescuesnot current
SISCAQU012Assist participants with a disability during aquatic activitiesnot current

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 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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