PUA40402 Certificate IV in Public Safety (Explosive Ordnance Maintenance)

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for PUA40402 ended on 9 February 2011 — 15 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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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 9 February 2012. 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.

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).

A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments in this product are not permitted today, so a course page advertising it is not permitted either — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Qualification
Training package
PUA00 — Public Safety Training Package
Currency period ends
9 February 2011
Latest release
Release 1 · 9 February 2011
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
PUA40406 equivalent

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.

  1. PUA40402Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Public Safety (Explosive Ordnance Maintenance)
  2. equivalent
  3. PUA40406Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Public Safety (Explosive Ordnance Maintenance)
  4. equivalent
  5. PUA40410Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Public Safety (Explosive Ordnance Maintenance)
  6. equivalent
  7. DEF40412Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Explosive Ordnance Maintenance
  8. equivalent
  9. DEF42115Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Explosive Ordnance Maintenance

training.gov.au publishes 2 replacements for DEF40412. This rail follows DEF42115; the other: DEF42215.

The chain does not end here: we draw five steps at most, and training.gov.au points on from DEF42115 to DEF40120, which it flags equivalent to DEF42115. Follow it from that page.

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.

  • PUA40402PUA40406equivalent10 February 2011

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

Is PUA40402 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether PUA40402 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.

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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 PUA40402 is made of

training.gov.au did not return a unit list for PUA40402 when this page was read. We would rather leave the gap visible than guess at it.

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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