PUA42612 Certificate IV in Public Safety (Aquatic Search and Rescue Management)

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for PUA42612 ended on 14 July 2019 — 7 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 16 July 2020 — 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.

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).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — 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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
PUA12 — Public Safety Training Package
Currency period ends
14 July 2019
Latest release
Release 2 · 2 May 2013 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
PUA42610
Superseded by
PUA42619 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. PUA42612Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Public Safety (Aquatic Search and Rescue Management)
  2. equivalent
  3. PUA42619CurrentCertificate IV in Public Safety (Aquatic Search and Rescue Management)

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.

  • PUA42610PUA42612equivalent16 August 2012

    Packaging rules wording reviewed. Units updated.

  • PUA42612PUA42619equivalent15 July 2019

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

Is PUA42612 on your scope?

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What PUA42612 is made of

training.gov.au lists 22 units for PUA42612: 5 core and 17 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 5 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
PUACOM001CCommunicate in the workplacenot current
PUACOM003BManage informationnot current
PUAMAN002BAdminister work group resourcesnot current
PUAOPE015AConduct briefings and debriefingsnot current
PUATEA003BLead, manage and develop teamsnot current

Elective units 17 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
PUAAMS007BCoordinate search and rescue operationsnot current
PUACOM002BProvide services to clientsnot current
PUACOM005BFoster a positive organisational image in the communitynot current
PUACOM007BLiaise with other organisationsnot current
PUACOM012BLiaise with media at a local levelnot current
PUACOM013BAdminister a local public safety groupnot current
PUAEMR026Treat operational risknot current
PUAEMR027Assess operational risknot current
PUAOHS001CFollow defined occupational health and safety policies and proceduresnot current
PUAOHS002BMaintain safety at an incident scenenot current
PUAOPE012AControl a Level 1 incidentnot current
PUAOPE027AUndertake beach safety management activitiesnot current
PUASAR011CSearch as a member of an aquatic search teamnot current
SISCAQU201AMonitor pool water qualitynot current
SISCAQU304AMaintain pool water qualitynot current
SISCAQU305AImplement aquatic facility plant and equipment maintenance programnot current
SISCAQU416ACoordinate lifeguard service at an aquatic facilitynot 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 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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