AHC31818 Certificate III in Beekeeping

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for AHC31818 ended on 29 April 2024 — 2 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 1 May 2025 — 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).

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Product type
Qualification
Training package
AHC — Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management Training Package
Currency period ends
29 April 2024
Latest release
Release 2 · 24 December 2020 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
AHC32016
Superseded by
AHC31824 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. AHC31818Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Beekeeping
  2. not equivalent
  3. AHC31824CurrentCertificate III in Beekeeping

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.

  • AHC32016AHC31818not equivalent18 December 2018

    Total units required increased from 16 to 18. Packaging rules changed. Units added and removed from core and electives.

  • AHC31818AHC31824not equivalent30 April 2024

    Updated 2 Core units and 6 Elective units. Added 1 Elective unit

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What AHC31818 is made of

training.gov.au lists 36 units for AHC31818: 13 core and 23 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 13 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
AHCBEK203Open and reassemble a beehivecurrent
AHCBEK205Prepare and use a bee smokercurrent
AHCBEK206Assemble and maintain beekeeping componentscurrent
AHCBEK301Manage honey bee swarmscurrent
AHCBEK302Manipulate honey bee broodcurrent
AHCBEK303Re-queen a honey bee colonycurrent
AHCBEK304Remove a honey crop from a hivecurrent
AHCBEK311Transport bee hives by road to new apiary sitecurrent
AHCBEK312Extract honeycurrent
AHCBEK313Manage pests and disease within a honey bee colonycurrent
AHCBEK405Select and establish an apiary sitecurrent
AHCWHS301Contribute to work health and safety processesnot current
AHCWRK306Comply with industry quality assurance requirementsnot current

Elective units 23 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
AHCBEK307Collect and store propoliscurrent
AHCBEK308Produce and harvest royal jellycurrent
AHCBEK309Trap and store pollencurrent
AHCBEK310Process raw wax into mouldscurrent
AHCBEK402Perform queen bee artificial inseminationcurrent
AHCBEK408Provide bee pollination servicescurrent
AHCBEK409Rear queen beescurrent
AHCBIO303Apply biosecurity measurescurrent
AHCBUS407Cost a projectcurrent
AHCLSK322Transport farm produce or bulk materialsnot current
AHCMOM213Operate and maintain chainsawscurrent
AHCPCM204Recognise plantscurrent
AHCWRK303Respond to emergenciesnot current
AHCWRK305Coordinate work site activitiesnot current
AHCWRK308Handle bulk materials in storage areanot current
BSBMKG433Undertake marketing activitiescurrent
FBPFSY2001Implement the food safety program and proceduresnot current
FBPFSY3002Participate in a HACCP teamcurrent
FBPGPS2011Operate a creamed honey manufacture processnot current
FBPOPR2023Operate a packaging processnot current
FBPOPR2066Apply sampling procedurescurrent
HLTAID011Provide First Aidcurrent
TLILIC0003Licence to operate a forklift truckcurrent

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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