Can an RTO still enrol new students in PUA30512?

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 July 2020. 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 PUA30512?

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).

PUA30512 Certificate III in Public Safety (SES 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.

PUA30512Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Public Safety (SES Operations)
equivalent
PUA30519CurrentCertificate III in Public Safety (SES 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.

PUA30510PUA30512equivalent16 August 2012
Packaging rules wording reviewed. Units updated.
PUA30512PUA30519equivalent15 July 2019
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for PUA30512 and for its training package PUA12 (release 2.1), 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.

PUA30512_R2.pdfPUA30512 release 2 · product document · published 2 May 2013
PUA30512_R2.docxPUA30512 release 2 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is PUA30512 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether PUA30512 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 PUA30512 is made of

training.gov.au lists 26 units for PUA30512: 7 core and 19 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 7 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
PUACOM003B	Manage information	not current
PUACOM007B	Liaise with other organisations	not current
PUAMAN002B	Administer work group resources	not current
PUAOHS001C	Follow defined occupational health and safety policies and procedures	not current
PUAOPE014A	Navigate to an incident	not current
PUAOPE015A	Conduct briefings and debriefings	not current
PUATEA002B	Work autonomously	not current

Elective units 19 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
PUACOM002B	Provide services to clients	not current
PUACOM005B	Foster a positive organisational image in the community	not current
PUACOM006B	Plan and conduct a public awareness program	not current
PUACOM008B	Develop and organise public safety awareness programs	not current
PUACOM012B	Liaise with media at a local level	not current
PUACOM013B	Administer a local public safety group	not current
PUAEMR030	Manage and evaluate emergency management exercises	not current
PUAEMR031	Design emergency management exercises	not current
PUALAW001B	Protect and preserve incident scene	not current
PUALAW002B	Conduct initial investigation at incident scene	not current
PUALAW003B	Give evidence in a judicial or quasi-judicial setting	not current
PUAOPE012A	Control a Level 1 incident	not current
PUASES010A	Plan, activate and maintain a communications network	not current
PUAVEH001B	Drive vehicles under operational conditions	not current
TAEASS301B	Contribute to assessment	not current
TAEASS401B	Plan assessment activities and processes	not current
TAEASS402B	Assess competence	not current
TAEASS403B	Participate in assessment validation	not current
TAEDEL301A	Provide work skill instruction	not 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 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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