When must new enrolments into PUA31310 stop?

New enrolments are not permitted from 17 August 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 PUA31310?

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).

PUA31310 Certificate III in Public Safety (Aquatic Search and 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.

PUA31310Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Public Safety (Aquatic Search and Rescue)
equivalent
PUA31312Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Public Safety (Aquatic Search and Rescue)
equivalent
PUA30319Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Public Safety (Aquatic Search and Rescue)
equivalent
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.

PUA31304PUA31310equivalent10 February 2011
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
PUA31310PUA31312equivalent16 August 2012
Packaging rules wording reviewed. Imported units updated.

Is PUA31310 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 PUA31310 is made of

training.gov.au lists 39 units for PUA31310. 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 39 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBFLM312B	Contribute to team effectiveness	`N/A`	not current
HLTFA201A	Provide basic emergency life support	`N/A`	not current
HLTFA301B	Apply first aid	`N/A`	not current
HLTFA302A	Provide first aid in remote situation	`N/A`	not current
HLTFA402B	Apply advanced first aid	`N/A`	not current
HLTFA404A	Apply advanced resuscitation techniques	`N/A`	not current
PMAOHS214B	Undertake helicopter safety and escape	`N/A`	not current
PUACOM001C	Communicate in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
PUACOM002B	Provide services to clients	`N/A`	not current
PUAEME001B	Provide emergency care	`N/A`	not current
PUAEME003C	Administer oxygen in an emergency situation	`N/A`	not current
PUAEME004A	Provide emergency care for suspected spinal injury	`N/A`	not current
PUAEME005A	Provide pain management	`N/A`	not current
PUAEMR006B	Treat risk at an operational level	`N/A`	not current
PUAEMR007B	Conduct risk assessment	`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
PUAOHS002B	Maintain safety at an incident scene	`N/A`	not current
PUAOPE009C	Navigate in an aquatic environment	`N/A`	not current
PUAOPE010C	Operate an automated external defibrillator in an emergency	`N/A`	not current
PUAOPE012A	Control a Level 1 incident	`N/A`	not current
PUAOPE013A	Operate communications systems and equipment	`N/A`	not current
PUAOPE027A	Undertake beach safety management activities	`N/A`	not current
PUAPOLIM002A	Promote public safety objectives by liaison with a culturally specific community	`N/A`	not current
PUASAR011C	Search as a member of an aquatic search team	`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
PUASAR014A	Operate and maintain a small powercraft and motor for rescue operations	`N/A`	not current
PUASAR015A	Crew small powercraft in a rescue operation	`N/A`	not current
PUASAR016A	Operate and maintain a personal water craft for rescue operations	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 9 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
PUASAR017A	Undertake advanced surf rescue	`N/A`	not current
PUASES012A	Work as a team member in an emergency operations centre	`N/A`	not current
PUATEA002B	Work autonomously	`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
SRCAQU007B	Respond to an aquatic emergency using advanced water rescue techniques	`N/A`	not current
SRCAQU014B	Assist participants with a disability during aquatic 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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