Can an RTO still enrol new students in PUA50904?

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 17 August 2013. 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.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in PUA50904?

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).

PUA50904 Diploma of Public Safety (Search and Rescue - Coordination)

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.

PUA50904Superseded — equivalentDiploma of Public Safety (Search and Rescue - Coordination)
equivalent
PUA50912Superseded — equivalentDiploma of Public Safety (Search and Rescue - Coordination)
equivalent
PUA50919CurrentDiploma of Public Safety (Search and Rescue - Coordination)

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.

PUA50904PUA50912equivalent16 August 2012
Packaging rules wording reviewed. Units updated. Elective groupings changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for PUA50904 and for its training package PUA00 (release 8.1), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

PUA50904_R1.pdfPUA50904 release 1 · product document · published 20 July 2012
PUA50904_R1.docxPUA50904 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is PUA50904 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether PUA50904 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 PUA50904 is made of

training.gov.au lists 23 units for PUA50904. 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 23 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
LGAPLEM404A	Prepare and present geographic information systems data	`N/A`	not current
PUAAMS003B	Conduct stores dropping operations	`N/A`	not current
PUAAMS006B	Coordinate search and rescue resources	`N/A`	not current
PUAAMS007B	Coordinate search and rescue operations	`N/A`	not current
PUACOM001C	Communicate in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
PUACOM003B	Manage information	`N/A`	not current
PUACOM007B	Liaise with other organisations	`N/A`	not current
PUACOM009B	Manage media requirements at major incident	`N/A`	not current
PUACOM012B	Liaise with media at a local level	`N/A`	not current
PUAEMR005B	Design and manage activities which exercise elements of emergency management	`N/A`	not current
PUAEMR007B	Conduct risk assessment	`N/A`	not current
PUALAW003B	Give evidence in a judicial or quasi-judicial setting	`N/A`	not current
PUAOPE003B	Navigate in urban and rural environments	`N/A`	not current
PUAOPE004B	Conduct briefings/debriefings	`N/A`	not current
PUAOPE006B	Control multi-agency emergency situations	`N/A`	not current
PUAPOLGD013A	Develop productive working relationships	`N/A`	not current
PUATEA003B	Lead, manage and develop teams	`N/A`	not current
TAAASS301B	Contribute to assessment	`N/A`	not current
TAAASS401C	Plan and organise assessment	`N/A`	not current
TAAASS402C	Assess competence	`N/A`	not current
TAAASS404B	Participate in assessment validation	`N/A`	not current
TAADEL301C	Provide training through instruction and demonstration of work skills	`N/A`	not current
TDMMH801A	Plan and navigate an inshore passage	`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 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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