AHCCHM401A Minimise risks in the use of chemicals

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for AHCCHM401A ended on 25 June 2016 — 10 years ago. It names 2 replacements below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 27 June 2017. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

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
Unit of competency
Training package
AHC10 — Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management
Currency period ends
25 June 2016
Latest release
Release 1 · 10 June 2011
Supersedes
RTC4702A
Superseded by
AHCCHM401 not equivalent AHCCHM402 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. AHCCHM401ASuperseded — not equivalentMinimise risks in the use of chemicals
  2. not equivalent
  3. AHCCHM401Superseded — equivalentDevelop procedures to minimise risks in the use of chemicals
  4. equivalent
  5. AHCCHM404CurrentDevelop procedures to minimise risks in the use of chemicals

training.gov.au publishes 2 replacements for AHCCHM401A. This rail follows AHCCHM401; the other: AHCCHM402. The transition clock above is computed from AHCCHM402, the replacement with the latest inclusion date — the reading most favourable to the provider.

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.

  • RTC4702AAHCCHM401Anot equivalent17 September 2004

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

  • AHCCHM401AAHCCHM401not equivalent26 June 2016

    This unit is not equivalent to AHCCHM401A Minimise risks in the use of chemicals.

  • AHCCHM401AAHCCHM402equivalent26 June 2016

    AHCCHM401A Minimise risks in the use of chemicals

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for AHCCHM401A and for its training package AHC10 (release 8.0), 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.

Is AHCCHM401A on your scope?

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Where AHCCHM401A is used

training.gov.au lists AHCCHM401A inside 22 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for AHCCHM401A in that product.

Products no longer current 22 listed

The register still records AHCCHM401A 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 productTypeAHCCHM401A is
AHC40110Certificate IV in AgricultureQualificationelective
AHC40210Certificate IV in Poultry ProductionQualificationelective
AHC40310Certificate IV in Production HorticultureQualificationelective
AHC40410Certificate IV in HorticultureQualificationelective
AHC40510Certificate IV in Parks and GardensQualificationelective
AHC40610Certificate IV in Production NurseryQualificationelective
AHC40710Certificate IV in Retail NurseryQualificationelective
AHC40810Certificate IV in Sports Turf ManagementQualificationelective
AHC40812Certificate IV in Sports Turf ManagementQualificationelective
AHC40910Certificate IV in Conservation and Land ManagementQualificationelective
Show the remaining 12 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeAHCCHM401A is
AHC41412Certificate IV in Seed ProductionQualificationelective
AHC41612Certificate IV in Organic FarmingQualificationelective
AHC50110Diploma of AgricultureQualificationelective
AHC51812Diploma of Organic FarmingQualificationelective
AHCSS00001Advanced Chemical Spray Application Skill SetSkill setelective
FPI50111Diploma of Forest and Forest ProductsQualificationelective
FWP50116Diploma of Forest and Forest ProductsQualificationelective
RGR40708Certificate IV in Racing Services (Track Maintenance)Qualificationelective
RGR50408Diploma of Racing Services (Track Management)Qualificationelective
SFI40111Certificate IV in AquacultureQualificationelective
SIS40412Certificate IV in Sport and RecreationQualificationelective
SIS50712Diploma of Sport and Recreation ManagementQualificationelective

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 14 October 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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