PUA30420 Certificate III in Public Safety (SES Rescue)

Currenttraining.gov.au: current

Australia's national training register lists PUA30420 as current. It publishes no end date for the currency period.

Product type
Qualification
Training package
PUA — Public Safety
Currency period ends
no end date published
Latest release
Release 4 · 16 December 2022 · 4 releases in all
Supersedes
PUA30419
Superseded by
nothing — no replacement listed

Where the register points next

training.gov.au points at nothing after PUA30420: it is the current product, and no replacement is listed.

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.

  • PUA30419PUA30420equivalent17 December 2020

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

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What PUA30420 is made of

training.gov.au lists 39 units for PUA30420: 4 core and 35 elective. To complete it, the register publishes a rule of 4 core units plus 7 electives11 units in all.

Core units 4 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
PUALAW001Protect and preserve incident scenecurrent
PUAOPE013Operate communications systems and equipmentcurrent
PUAOPE014Navigate to an incidentcurrent
PUAWHS002Maintain safety at an incident scenecurrent

Elective units 35 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
FWPCOT2256Trim and cut felled treesnot current
FWPFGM3216Fell trees manually (intermediate)not current
FWPFGM3217Fell trees manually (advanced)not current
HLTAID011Provide First Aidcurrent
HLTAID015Provide advanced resuscitation and oxygen therapycurrent
PUAAMS001Work in an aviation environmentcurrent
PUAAMS002Search as a member of an air search teamcurrent
PUAAMS003Conduct stores dropping operationscurrent
PUACOM002Provide services to clientscurrent
PUACOM003Manage informationcurrent
PUACOM005Foster a positive organisational image in the communitycurrent
PUAEMR032Design emergency management exercisescurrent
PUAEMR036Manage and evaluate emergency management exercisescurrent
PUALAW002Conduct initial investigation at incident scenecurrent
PUALAW003Give evidence in a judicial or quasi-judicial settingcurrent
PUAMAN002Administer allocation of resourcescurrent
PUAOPE012Control a Level 1 incidentcurrent
PUAOPE015Conduct briefings and debriefingscurrent
PUASAR024Undertake road crash rescuecurrent
PUASAR027Undertake land search rescuecurrent
PUASAR028Undertake rescue from a partial structural collapsecurrent
PUASAR032Undertake vertical rescuecurrent
PUASES001Assess trees at emergency incidentscurrent
PUASES002Develop work plan for tree stabilisation and removalcurrent
PUASES003Stabilise and remove trees during emergency incidentscurrent
PUASES008Undertake storm and water damage operationscurrent
PUASES009Undertake inland floodboat operationscurrent
PUASES010Plan, activate and maintain a communications networkcurrent
PUASES012Work as a team member in an emergency operations centrecurrent
PUASES013Undertake storm and water damage operations performed at heightscurrent
Show the remaining 5 elective units
CodeUnitIn this product
PUASES014Apply flood and fast moving water safety techniquescurrent
PUASES015Operate over-snow vehiclecurrent
PUASES016Apply snowcraft skills when performing search operationscurrent
PUATEA002Work autonomouslycurrent
PUAVEH001Drive vehicles under operational conditionscurrent

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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