Can an RTO still enrol new students in RII30209?

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 21 March 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 RII30209?

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).

RII30209 Certificate III in Underground Coal 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.

RII30209Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Underground Coal Operations
equivalent
RII30212Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Underground Coal Operations
not equivalent
RII30213Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Underground Coal Operations
equivalent
RII30215Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Underground Coal Operations
equivalent
RII30218Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Underground Coal Operations

The chain does not end here: we draw five steps at most, and training.gov.au points on from RII30218 to RII30220, which it flags not equivalent to RII30218. Follow it from that page.

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.

RII30209RII30212equivalent20 March 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for RII30209 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.

RII30209_R1.docxRII30209 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024
RII30209_R1.pdfRII30209 release 1 · product document · published 20 July 2012
RII09 User Guide - SUPERSEDEDCompanion Volume Supporting Material · RII09 release 3.2 · DOC · 1 March 2016

Is RII30209 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether RII30209 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 RII30209 is made of

training.gov.au lists 52 units for RII30209. 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 52 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
RIIBLA302A	Conduct shotfiring operations in underground coal mines	`N/A`	not current
RIICOM301B	Communicate information	`N/A`	not current
RIIENV301A	Conduct atmospheric monitoring	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR201A	Conduct fire team operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR203A	Escape from hazardous situation unaided	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR204A	Provide aided rescue to endangered personnel	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR205A	Apply initial response First Aid	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR301A	Respond to mine incident	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR302A	Respond to local emergencies and incidents	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR303A	Operate in self-contained regenerative oxygen breathing apparatus	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR304A	Control emergencies and critical situations	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR305A	Control underground fires	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR306A	Conduct underground search	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR307A	Extricate casualties from underground incident	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR308A	Extricate and transport people involved in incidents	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR309A	Establish and operate from fresh air base	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR310A	Provide support for rescue operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIGOV201A	Comply with site work processes/procedures	`N/A`	not current
RIIHAN304A	Conduct slewing crane operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIMCU208A	Conduct basic strata control operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIMCU209A	Conduct roadway maintenance	`N/A`	not current
RIIMCU214A	Conduct face ventilation operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIMCU301A	Conduct specialised strata control operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIMCU302A	Construct and maintain ventilation devices	`N/A`	not current
RIIMCU303A	Conduct continuous miner operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIMCU304A	Conduct shuttle car operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIMCU305A	Conduct outburst mining operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIMCU306A	Conduct shearer operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIMCU307A	Conduct longwall face equipment operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIMCU308A	Install and recover longwall equipment	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 22 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
RIIMCU309A	Operate breaker line supports	`N/A`	not current
RIIMCU310A	Conduct flexible conveyor train (FCT) operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIMCU311A	Monitor control processes	`N/A`	not current
RIIMCU401A	Conduct special roadway operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIMCU402A	Apply spontaneous combustion management measures	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB304B	Conduct air drilling	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB310A	Conduct surface directional drilling	`N/A`	not current
RIIOHS301A	Conduct safety and health investigations	`N/A`	not current
RIIPEO202A	Provide deck support for conveyor-car high wall mining operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIPEO301A	Conduct conveyor-car high wall mining operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIRIS301A	Apply risk management processes	`N/A`	not current
RIISAM304A	Install, commission and maintain major conveyor equipment and systems	`N/A`	not current
RIISAM305A	Repair and splice conveyor belting	`N/A`	not current
RIISAM311A	Maintain winder equipment	`N/A`	not current
RIISAM312A	Inspect and maintain shafts and structures	`N/A`	not current
RIISAM313A	Monitor, inspect and service ropes and attachments	`N/A`	not current
RIIUND205A	Respond to a workforce incident	`N/A`	not current
RIIUND208A	Conduct skip operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIUND209A	Operate automated winder	`N/A`	not current
RIIUND301A	Operate manual winder	`N/A`	not current
RIIUND302A	Conduct cage operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIUND303A	Operate winder for shaft sinking	`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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