PUAOPE013A Operate communications systems and equipment

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for PUAOPE013A ended on 14 July 2019 — 7 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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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A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
PUA00 — Public Safety Training Package
Currency period ends
14 July 2019
Latest release
Release 2 · 17 August 2012 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
PUAOPE013 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. PUAOPE013ASuperseded — equivalentOperate communications systems and equipment
  2. equivalent
  3. PUAOPE013CurrentOperate communications systems and equipment

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.

  • PUAOPE013APUAOPE013equivalent15 July 2019

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

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for PUAOPE013A 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.

Is PUAOPE013A on your scope?

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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.

Where PUAOPE013A is used

training.gov.au lists PUAOPE013A inside 37 training products, 1 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for PUAOPE013A in that product.

Current products 1 listed

CodeTraining productTypePUAOPE013A is
DEF51115Diploma of LeadershipQualificationelective

Products no longer current 36 listed

The register still records PUAOPE013A inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypePUAOPE013A is
DEF10112Certificate I in Defence Force CadetsQualificationelective
DEF10117Certificate I in Defence SkillsQualificationelective
DEF21112Certificate II in Military SkillsQualificationelective
DEF21115Certificate II in Military SkillsQualificationelective
DEF32215Certificate III in Explosive Ordnance Proof and ExperimentalQualificationelective
FWP20116Certificate II in Forest Growing and ManagementQualificationelective
FWP20216Certificate II in Harvesting and HaulageQualificationelective
PUA20110Certificate II in Public Safety (Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Community Policing)Qualificationelective
PUA20112Certificate II in Public Safety (Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Community Policing)Qualificationcore
PUA20310Certificate II in Public Safety (Police Liaison)Qualificationelective
Show the remaining 26 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypePUAOPE013A is
PUA20312Certificate II in Public Safety (Police Liaison)Qualificationcore
PUA20410Certificate II in Public Safety (SES Rescue)Qualificationelective
PUA20510Certificate II in Public Safety (SES Operations)Qualificationelective
PUA20601Certificate II in Public Safety (Firefighting and Emergency Operations)Qualificationelective
PUA20613Certificate II in Public Safety (Firefighting and Emergency Operations)Qualificationcore
PUA20701Certificate II in Public Safety (Firefighting Operations)Qualificationelective
PUA20713Certificate II in Public Safety (Firefighting Operations)Qualificationelective
PUA21010Certificate II in Public Safety (Aquatic Rescue)Qualificationelective
PUA21012Certificate II in Public Safety (Aquatic Rescue)Qualificationelective
PUA21110Certificate II in Public Safety (Military Skills)Qualificationelective
PUA21310Certificate II in Public Safety (SES)Qualificationelective
PUA21312Certificate II in Public Safety (SES)Qualificationelective
PUA30410Certificate III in Public Safety (SES Rescue)Qualificationelective
PUA30412Certificate III in Public Safety (SES Rescue)Qualificationcore
PUA30510Certificate III in Public Safety (SES Operations)Qualificationelective
PUA31310Certificate III in Public Safety (Aquatic Search and Rescue)Qualificationelective
PUA31312Certificate III in Public Safety (Aquatic Search and Rescue)Qualificationcore
PUA33010Certificate III in Public Safety (Emergency Communications Centre Operations)Qualificationelective
PUA33012Certificate III in Public Safety (Emergency Communications Centre Operations)Qualificationelective
PUA33112Certificate III in Public Safety (Biosecurity Response Operations)Qualificationelective
PUA40210Certificate IV in Public Safety (SES Leadership)Qualificationelective
PUA41004Certificate IV in Public Safety (Leadership)Qualificationelective
PUASS00002Alpine Search and Survival OperationsSkill setelective
PUASS00018Operations CentreSkill setelective
PUASS00027Alpine Search and Survival OperationsSkill setelective
PUASS00042Operations CentreSkill setelective

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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