When must new enrolments into RII40909 stop?

New enrolments are not permitted from 14 November 2014 — 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.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in RII40909?

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).

RII40909 Certificate IV 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.

RII40909Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Drilling Operations
equivalent
RII40913Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Drilling Operations
not equivalent
RII40915Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Drilling Operations
equivalent
RII40920CurrentCertificate IV 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.

RII40909RII40913equivalent13 November 2013
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is RII40909 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether RII40909 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Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.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 RII40909 is made of

training.gov.au lists 37 units for RII40909. 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 37 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBCUS401A	Coordinate implementation of customer service strategies	`N/A`	not current
BSBFIM501A	Manage budgets and financial plans	`N/A`	not current
BSBLED401A	Develop teams and individuals	`N/A`	not current
BSBMGT401A	Show leadership in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
BSBMGT402A	Implement operational plan	`N/A`	not current
BSBOHS407A	Monitor a safe workplace	`N/A`	not current
BSBRKG403B	Set up a business or records system for a small business	`N/A`	not current
BSBSMB402A	Plan small business finances	`N/A`	not current
BSBSMB403A	Market the small business	`N/A`	not current
BSBSMB404A	Undertake small business planning	`N/A`	not current
BSBSMB405A	Monitor and manage small business operations	`N/A`	not current
HLTFA301B	Apply first aid	`N/A`	not current
HLTFA402B	Apply advanced first aid	`N/A`	not current
RIIBEF402A	Supervise on-site operations	`N/A`	not current
RIIENV402A	Implement and monitor environmental policies	`N/A`	not current
RIIERR401B	Apply and monitor surface operations emergency preparedness and response systems	`N/A`	not current
RIIFIA401A	Manage financial records	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB401A	Plan and supervise the mobilisation of equipment, crew and materials	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB402A	Supervise mineral exploration drilling operations	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB403A	Supervise geotechnical drilling operations	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB404A	Supervise seismic drilling operations	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB405A	Supervise water well drilling operations	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB406A	Supervise foundation drilling operations	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB407A	Supervise horizontal directional drilling operations	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB408A	Supervise environmental drilling operations	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB409A	Supervise mineral production and development drilling operations	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB410A	Supervise surface directional drilling operations	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB411A	Construct artesian (flowing) aquifer production bores	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB412B	Construct geothermal wells	`N/A`	not current
RIINHB413A	Supervise underground in-seam directional drilling operations	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 7 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
RIIOGD405A	Carry out well control and blow out prevention	`N/A`	not current
RIIQUA401A	Apply a quality management system on site	`N/A`	not current
RIIRIS401A	Apply site risk management system	`N/A`	not current
RIISAM401A	Apply site plant, equipment and infrastructure maintenance management plan	`N/A`	not current
TAAASS401C	Plan and organise assessment	`N/A`	not current
TAEASS301B	Contribute to assessment	`N/A`	not current
TAEASS403B	Participate in assessment validation	`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 28 August 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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