ACM20217 Certificate II in Horse Care

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for ACM20217 ended on 16 February 2022 — 4 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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Product type
Qualification
Training package
ACM — Animal Care and Management Training Package
Currency period ends
16 February 2022
Latest release
Release 1 · 29 November 2017
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
ACM20221 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. ACM20217Superseded — not equivalentCertificate II in Horse Care
  2. not equivalent
  3. ACM20221CurrentCertificate II in Horse Care

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.

  • ACM20217ACM20221not equivalent17 February 2022

    Qualification description revised. Total number of units required to achieve the qualification decreased from 14 to 13. Packaging rules, core and elective units changed. Riding specialisation removed

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for ACM20217 and for its training package ACM (release 6.0), 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.

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What ACM20217 is made of

training.gov.au lists 26 units for ACM20217: 6 core and 20 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 6 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
ACMEQU201Work safely in industries with horsesnot current
ACMEQU202Handle horses safelynot current
ACMEQU203Provide basic care of horsesnot current
ACMEQU204Perform daily tasks in the horse industrynot current
ACMEQU205Apply knowledge of horse behaviournot current
ACMGAS202Participate in workplace communicationscurrent

Elective units 20 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
ACMEQU206Perform horse riding skills at walk, trot and canternot current
ACMEQU207Develop riding skills for exercising horsesnot current
ACMEQU208Manage personal health and fitness for working with horsesnot current
ACMEQU209Provide non-riding exercise to horsesnot current
ACMEQU210Lunge educated horsesnot current
ACMEQU211Prepare horses for competition, presentation or salenot current
ACMEQU301Introduce horses to lunge exercisenot current
ACMEQU302Apply knowledge of minimising impact of falling from a horsenot current
ACMHBR201Check and treat horsesnot current
ACMHBR203Provide daily care for horsesnot current
AHCLSK204Carry out regular livestock observationnot current
AHCLSK210Muster and move livestocknot current
AHCLSK218Ride educated horses to carry out basic stock worknot current
AHCWRK201Observe and report on weathernot current
AHCWRK203Operate in isolated and remote situationsnot current
AHCWRK302Monitor weather conditionsnot current
HLTAID003Provide first aidnot current
HLTAID011Provide First Aidcurrent
SISOEQO305ARide horses in tracked areasnot current
TLID1001Shift materials safely using manual handling methodsnot current

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "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.

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