When must new enrolments into PUA32909 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 PUA32909?

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).

PUA32909 Certificate III in Public Safety (Vehicle Recovery)

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.

PUA32909Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Public Safety (Vehicle Recovery)
equivalent
DEF32912Deleted from the registerCertificate III in Vehicle Recovery

The register does not list a current endpoint for this chain: DEF32912 is the last product it points at, and DEF32912 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.

PUA32909DEF32912equivalent14 March 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is PUA32909 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether PUA32909 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Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.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 PUA32909 is made of

training.gov.au lists 32 units for PUA32909. 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 32 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
AURT270278A	Use and maintain workplace tools and equipment	`N/A`	not current
AURV328961A	Recover vehicle	`N/A`	not current
BSBCMM201A	Communicate in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
BSBINM201A	Process and maintain workplace information	`N/A`	not current
BSBOHS201A	Participate in OHS processes	`N/A`	not current
BSBSUS201A	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	`N/A`	not current
BSBWOR202A	Organise and complete daily work activities	`N/A`	not current
CPCCSF2003A	Cut and bend materials using oxy-LPG equipment	`N/A`	not current
HLTFA301B	Apply first aid	`N/A`	not current
MEM16012A	Interpret technical specifications and manuals	`N/A`	not current
MSAENV272A	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	`N/A`	not current
PSPGOV204B	Access and use resources	`N/A`	not current
PSPGOV207B	Use technology in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFCM104C	Operate in a threat environment	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFEO201C	Respond to fire	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFEQ001C	Work with equity and diversity	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFTP001B	Operate a vehicle in an environment of threat	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFTP002B	Operate a vehicle at night	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFTP003B	Operate a vehicle over difficult terrain	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFVH001A	Conduct recovery vehicle operations in a field environment	`N/A`	not current
PUADEFVH002A	Extract disabled equipment using winching techniques in a field environment	`N/A`	not current
PUATEA001B	Work in a team	`N/A`	not current
PUAWER008B	Confine small workplace emergencies	`N/A`	not current
RTC2304A	Operate and maintain chainsaws	`N/A`	not current
TLIB2807B	Maintain and use hand tools	`N/A`	not current
TLIC707C	Operate vehicle carrying special loads	`N/A`	not current
TLID107C	Shift materials safely using manual handling methods	`N/A`	not current
TLID3107C	Rig load	`N/A`	not current
TLID3307C	Operate a vehicle-mounted loading crane	`N/A`	not current
TLID407C	Load and unload goods/cargo	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 2 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
TLIE507C	Carry out basic workplace calculations	`N/A`	not current
TLIF607C	Apply accident-emergency procedures	`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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