When must new enrolments into PUA31010 stop?

New enrolments are not permitted from 15 March 2013 — 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 PUA31010?

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).

PUA31010 Certificate III in Public Safety (Maritime 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.

PUA31010Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Public Safety (Maritime Operations)
equivalent
DEF31012Deleted from the registerCertificate III in Maritime Operations

The register does not list a current endpoint for this chain: DEF31012 is the last product it points at, and DEF31012 is not marked current either.

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.

PUA31007PUA31010equivalent10 February 2011
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
PUA31010DEF31012equivalent14 March 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is PUA31010 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether PUA31010 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Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.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 PUA31010 is made of

training.gov.au lists 52 units for PUA31010. 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 52 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBCMN311B	Maintain workplace safety	`N/A`	not current
BSBINM201A	Process and maintain workplace information	`N/A`	not current
BSBSUS201A	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	`N/A`	not current
CPCCCM2004A	Handle construction materials	`N/A`	not current
HLTFA301B	Apply first aid	`N/A`	not current
MEM08011B	Prepare surfaces using solvents and/or mechanical means	`N/A`	not current
MEM08012B	Prepare surfaces by abrasive blasting (basic)	`N/A`	not current
MEM08014B	Apply protective coatings (basic)	`N/A`	not current
MEM08016B	Control blast coating by-products, materials and emissions	`N/A`	not current
MEM11001C	Erect/dismantle scaffolding and equipment	`N/A`	not current
MEM13003B	Work safely with industrial chemicals and materials	`N/A`	not current
MEM18001C	Use hand tools	`N/A`	not current
MEM18002B	Use power tools/hand held operations	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFBM001C	Assist in seamanship operations	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFBM003C	Control persons using non firearms options	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFBM004C	Defend persons using firearms	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFBM005C	Maintain weapons and associated equipment	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFBM007A	Assist in ship navigation	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFBM008A	Operate a chaff firing system	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFBM009A	Operate a visual target designator system	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA001B	Observe and monitor hostile areas to detect targets	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA005B	Operate communications equipment	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA301B	Shift loads manually utilising non-motorised equipment	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA309B	Perform military high-risk search	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA401B	Undertake security operations	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA406B	Operate a service pistol	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA409B	Operate a shotgun	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA411B	Operate a grenade launcher	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA413B	Operate a direct fire support weapon	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA414B	Operate direct fire support weapon systems on operations	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 22 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
PUADEFCA419B	Operate a service rifle on operations	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCA420B	Operate a light support weapon on operations	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM002C	Operate night fighting equipment	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM101C	Operate a service rifle	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM102C	Operate a light support weapon	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM104C	Operate in a threat environment	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM105C	Participate in ceremonial activities	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCO405C	Conduct operator level maintenance in a Defence environment	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFEO101D	Work safely with explosive ordnance	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFEO202D	Establish and maintain the safety and security of explosive warehouses and workshops	`N/A`	not current
PUATEA001B	Work in a team	`N/A`	not current
TDMMC1007C	STEER A VESSEL UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MASTER OR OFFICER IN CHARGE OF THE WATCH	`N/A`	not current
TDMME207B	COMMUNICATE USING STANDARD MARINE VOCABULARY	`N/A`	not current
TDMMF1107B	SURVIVE AT SEA IN THE EVENT OF VESSEL ABANDONMENT	`N/A`	not current
TDMMF3507B	CONTRIBUTE TO MAINTAINING A SAFE WATCH	`N/A`	not current
TDMMF5407A	OBSERVE SAFETY AND EMERGENCY PROCEDURES ON 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
TDMMR1907B	SAFELY HANDLE AND STOW EXPLOSIVE AND FLAMMABLE MATERIALS	`N/A`	not current
TDMMR3307B	PERFORM RIGGING AND LIFTING OPERATIONS ON BOARD A VESSEL	`N/A`	not current
TDMMR3407B	OPERATE DECK MACHINERY	`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 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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