Can an RTO still enrol new students in RII20909?

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 14 November 2014. 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 RII20909?

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).

RII20909 Certificate II in Drilling Operations

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.

RII20909Superseded — not equivalentCertificate II in Drilling Operations
not equivalent
RII20913Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Drilling Operations
equivalent
RII20915Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Drilling Operations
equivalent
RII20920CurrentCertificate II in Drilling Operations

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.

RII20909RII20913not equivalent13 November 2013
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for RII20909 and for its training package RII09 (release 3.2), 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.

RII20909_R3.docxRII20909 release 3 · product document · published 26 November 2024
RII20909_R3.pdfRII20909 release 3 · product document · published 4 June 2013
RII09 User Guide - SUPERSEDEDCompanion Volume Supporting Material · RII09 release 3.2 · DOC · 1 March 2016

Is RII20909 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether RII20909 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 RII20909 is made of

training.gov.au lists 35 units for RII20909. 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 35 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBWOR203A	Work effectively with others	`N/A`	not current
HLTFA301B	Apply first aid	`N/A`	not current
RIICOM201A	Communicate in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
RIIENV201A	Identify and assess environmental and heritage concerns	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR202A	Contribute to the control of emergencies and critical situations	`N/A`	not current
RIIHAN201A	Operate a forklift	`N/A`	not current
RIIHAN206A	Transport plant, equipment and personnel	`N/A`	not current
RIIHAN208A	Perform dogging	`N/A`	not current
RIIHAN213A	Work effectively in the drilling industry	`N/A`	not current
RIIHAN307A	Operate a vehicle loading crane	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB201B	Load, secure and unload drilling equipment and materials	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB202A	Set up/pack up drill site	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB203A	Support drilling process	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB205A	Assist continuous flight auger drilling	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB206A	Assist large diameter auger drilling	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB208B	Assist diamond core drilling	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB209A	Assist guided boring	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB210B	Assist surface directional drilling	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB211A	Assist mud rotary drilling	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB213A	Assist cable tool drilling	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB216A	Assist underground in-seam directional drilling	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB217A	Assist horizontal direction drilling	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB218A	Assist grouting or cementing operations	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB219A	Assist with air drilling	`N/A`	not current
RIIOHS201A	Work safely and follow OHS policies and procedures	`N/A`	not current
RIIOHS204A	Work safely at heights	`N/A`	not current
RIIQUA201A	Maintain and monitor site quality standards	`N/A`	not current
RIIRIS201B	Conduct local risk control	`N/A`	not current
RIISAM202A	Isolate and access plant	`N/A`	not current
RIISAM205A	Cut, weld and bend materials	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 5 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
RIISTD202A	Collect routine site samples	`N/A`	not current
RIIUND206A	Install hand held underground ground support	`N/A`	not current
RIIVEH201B	Operate light vehicle	`N/A`	not current
RIIVEH203B	Operate light vehicle underground	`N/A`	not current
RIIVEH305A	Operate and maintain a four wheel drive vehicle	`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 13 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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