SISCAQU002 Perform basic water rescues

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for SISCAQU002 ended on 11 December 2022 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 13 December 2023 — 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.

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).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
SIS — Sport, Fitness and Recreation Training Package
Currency period ends
11 December 2022
Latest release
Release 1 · 3 September 2015
Supersedes
SISCAQU202A
Superseded by
SISCAQU020 not 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. SISCAQU002Superseded — not equivalentPerform basic water rescues
  2. not equivalent
  3. SISCAQU020CurrentPerform water rescues

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.

  • SISCAQU202ASISCAQU002not equivalent2 September 2015

    Updated to meet Standards for TRaining Packages.

  • SISCAQU002SISCAQU020not equivalent12 December 2022

    Non-equivalent. Title changed. Unit reordered and reworded, with clearer performance measures added.Performance Evidence amended to provide clearer information about types of rescue activities, and extended to cover debriefing and incident reporting post-rescue.

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Where SISCAQU002 is used

training.gov.au lists SISCAQU002 inside 18 training products, 7 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for SISCAQU002 in that product.

Current products 7 listed

CodeTraining productTypeSISCAQU002 is
PUA20119Certificate II in Public Safety (Aquatic Rescue)Qualificationelective
SIS20419Certificate II in Outdoor RecreationQualificationelective
SIS30321Certificate III in FitnessQualificationelective
SIS30619Certificate III in Outdoor LeadershipQualificationelective
SIS40221Certificate IV in FitnessQualificationelective
SIS40621Certificate IV in Outdoor LeadershipQualificationelective
SIS50421Diploma of Outdoor LeadershipQualificationelective

Products no longer current 11 listed

The register still records SISCAQU002 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 productTypeSISCAQU002 is
PUA30319Certificate III in Public Safety (Aquatic Search and Rescue)Qualificationelective
SIS20115Certificate II in Sport and RecreationQualificationelective
SIS30315Certificate III in FitnessQualificationelective
SIS31015Certificate III in Aquatics and Community RecreationQualificationelective
SIS40115Certificate IV in Sport and RecreationQualificationelective
SIS40619Certificate IV in Outdoor LeadershipQualificationelective
SIS50419Diploma of Outdoor LeadershipQualificationelective
SISSS00111Pool LifeguardSkill setelective
SISSS00112Swimming and Water Safety TeacherSkill setelective
SISSS00127Aqua Exercise InstructionSkill setelective
Show the remaining 1 product no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeSISCAQU002 is
SISSS00129Pool LifeguardSkill 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 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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