PUA50312 Diploma of Public Safety (Forensic Investigation)

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for PUA50312 ended on 17 October 2015 — 10 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 19 October 2016 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

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Product type
Qualification
Training package
PUA12 — Public Safety Training Package
Currency period ends
17 October 2015
Latest release
Release 1 · 17 August 2012
Supersedes
PUA50310
Superseded by
POL54115 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. PUA50312Superseded — equivalentDiploma of Public Safety (Forensic Investigation)
  2. equivalent
  3. POL54115Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Forensic Investigation
  4. not equivalent
  5. POL54124CurrentDiploma of Forensic Investigation

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.

  • PUA50310PUA50312equivalent16 August 2012

    Pathways information reviewed. Units updated.

  • PUA50312POL54115equivalent18 October 2015

    This qualification supersedes and is equivalent to PUA50312 Diploma of Public Safety (Forensic Investigation).

Is PUA50312 on your scope?

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What PUA50312 is made of

training.gov.au lists 9 units for PUA50312: 9 core and 0 elective. 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.

Core units 9 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
PUAPOLFC002BMaintain a safe forensic working environmentnot current
PUAPOLFC003BDetect, record and collect physical evidencenot current
PUAPOLFC004BEvaluate and document cases and facilitate analysesnot current
PUAPOLFC005BPrepare and submit forensic documentationnot current
PUAPOLFC006BContribute to and comply with quality systemsnot current
PUAPOLFC008BProcess and interpret comparative evidencenot current
PUAPOLFC022APrepare and present specialist forensic evidence or opinionnot current
PUAPOLFC029AUse and maintain specialist forensic equipmentnot current
PUATEA002BWork autonomouslynot 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.

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