CPP30119 Certificate III in Urban Pest Management (formerly CPP30115)

CPP30119 is the national qualification that sits behind most Australian pest management licences, and picking the wrong electives is the mistake that delays a licence application. The certificate is ten units: five core and five elective. The core units are the same for every graduate. The electives determine which state authorisations (timber pests, fumigation, sensitive or complex operations) you can apply for, and a graduate who chose only the minimum elective set walks out qualified for urban pests but not for termites.

Who is telling you this, and why: Fieldwynn is a field-service app for small pest-control crews, we are building it, and it has not launched. The next step at the foot of this page is an early-access email ask, not a purchase. Read the page as a funnel rather than a disinterested verdict. Every unit code and packaging rule below is quoted from training.gov.au and linked back to it, which is the part that holds whoever ends up running your route.

What CPP30119 replaced: the CPP30115 supersession

The training.gov.au Release 4 document records the mapping in one line: “Supersedes and equivalent to CPP30115 Certificate III in Urban Pest Management.” Two words matter there. “Supersedes” means CPP30115 is no longer current and registered training organisations deliver CPP30119 instead. “Equivalent” means a graduate holding CPP30115 holds a qualification recognised as equivalent to CPP30119.

The qualification has been through four releases. Release 4 is the current one (document generated 4 February 2026). Release 3 updated an imported first-aid unit from HLTAID003 to HLTAID011 and was published with CPP Property Services Training Package Version 15.1. Release 2 corrected an imported construction-safety unit code. Release 1 was the first publication with CPP Training Package Release 9.0.

The five core units every graduate holds

Training.gov.au lists five core units. These are not optional: every CPP30119 graduate demonstrates competency in all five.

Three of those five (CPPUPM3005, CPPUPM3006 and CPPUPM3018) are the units the NSW EPA names for a standard pest management technician licence. So every CPP30119 graduate, regardless of elective selection, holds the units NSW requires for a general urban pest licence. The Australian pest management licence by state guide maps the unit requirements for Queensland and other states.

The elective list and the authorisation link

The five electives are where the qualification branches. Training.gov.au lists 17 elective units, and up to two of the five may come from any training package as long as they maintain the AQF level. The rest must come from the listed set.

The practical consequence is that an operator planning to do termite inspections must choose CPPUPM3008 and CPPUPM3010 as two of their five electives, and a technician planning to fumigate must choose CPPUPM3011. A graduate who chose only first aid, construction safety and mentoring electives holds a valid CPP30119 but cannot apply for a timber pest or fumigation authorisation without further training.

How each state uses CPP30119

The qualification is national. The licence is not. Each state names the units it requires for each authorisation, and those units sit inside CPP30119 but are not the whole of it.

Queensland asks for units, not a named certificate. The Queensland Health competency standard (which this page could not read live on 25 October 2026 because health.qld.gov.au returned HTTP 403) maps authorisations to specific units. The Queensland section of the Australian pest management licence by state guide carries the unit mapping, the full fee ladder and the operational detail.

New South Wales names three core competencies (CPPUPM3005, CPPUPM3006 and CPPUPM3018) for a standard pest management technician licence, adds CPPUPM3008 and CPPUPM3010 for the separate timber pest licence, and CPPUPM3011 for the fumigator licence. The NSW EPA issues all three licence types.

Western Australia recognises CPP30119 as approved pest management training. The WA Department of Health FAQ page (read 25 October 2026) states: “CPP30119 - Certificate III in Urban Pest Management is approved pest management training in WA” and “This course supersedes the previous CPP30115 Certificate III in Urban Pest Management.” The Australian pest management licence by state guide carries the WA fee ladder and registration detail.

Victoria issues pest control licences through the Department of Health. The health.vic.gov.au pest control licence applications page (read 25 October 2026) states that an applicant “may be granted a licence under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008”. The Australian pest management licence by state guide carries the Victorian technician and trainee fee tiers.

For the full per-state licensing detail, including fees, terms, trainee ladders and mutual recognition, see the Australian pest management licence by state guide.

Entry requirements and finding an RTO

Training.gov.au states plainly: “This qualification has no entry requirements.” Any person can enrol in CPP30119 through a registered training organisation (RTO).

To find an RTO that delivers CPP30119 in your state, search training.gov.au for the qualification code and filter by location. The register lists every approved RTO with its delivery locations. Course duration and course fees are set by the RTO, not by the training package, and vary widely depending on the delivery mode (classroom, workplace, online or blended), the electives offered and whether the student holds prior competency that can be recognised. This page names no training provider and no course fee, because both are commercial and RTO-set rather than regulator-published.

One prerequisite applies within the elective list. The construction-safety unit CPCCCM2012 (Work safely at heights) has a prerequisite: CPCCWHS2001 (Apply WHS requirements, policies and procedures in the construction industry). A student choosing CPCCCM2012 must complete CPCCWHS2001 first.

What sits outside CPP30119

Three things this qualification does not cover, and the page does not either.

First, the dosing. CPP30119 teaches a technician to manage pests by applying pesticides (CPPUPM3006), but the rate, the dilution and the handling for a specific product is set by the label and by the regulator’s conditions, not by a website. The pesticide dosing hub indexes calculators that convert a rate you already hold into tank quantities and cost, without ever telling you what that rate is.

Second, the business licence. Some states require the business itself to hold a separate licence or registration on top of the technician’s personal qualification. The Australian pest management licence by state guide spells out which states require what.

Third, the insurance. Public liability insurance is not part of the qualification or the licensing requirement in most states, but it is part of almost every commercial contract. The public liability insurance guide for Australian tradies covers the common policy tiers and the factors that affect premiums.

For the UK qualification pathway, the structure is entirely different: no national licence and a different qualification framework. For the US federal layer, the EPA sets a floor of categories and each state adds its own on top.

From the certificate to a paying route

The certificate is the entry ticket, not the business. Turning it into a route that pays means pricing each job for its true cost and drive time with the pest control pricing calculator (US-built; override the currency and tax handling), moving recurring accounts onto recurring billing so revenue repeats, and keeping the licence renewal dates in the calendar rather than in memory. When you are ready to carry the qualification, the licence and the route alongside each other, Fieldwynn is the field-service app we are building for that back-office load: focused in the field, powerful in the back office. It has not launched, so the next step below is an early-access email ask, and the calculators and the qualification facts stay free either way.