AHCWHS401 Maintain work health and safety processes

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for AHCWHS401 ended on 22 January 2023 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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For an ASQA-registered RTO that does not already hold it, adding AHCWHS402 to scope is a change-of-scope application to ASQA, with a fee set by law: A$200 application fee + A$1,100 assessment fee per application (up to 5 VET courses and 50 units of competency). RTOs registered by a state regulator, and ASQA delegates, sit under other arrangements. Source: NVR Fees Determination 2026, F2026L00814, from 1 July 2026 · read 5 September 2026.

Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
AHC — Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management Training Package
Currency period ends
22 January 2023
Latest release
Release 1 · 27 June 2016
Supersedes
AHCOHS401A
Superseded by
AHCWHS402 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. AHCWHS401Superseded — not equivalentMaintain work health and safety processes
  2. not equivalent
  3. AHCWHS402CurrentMaintain workplace health and safety processes

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.

  • AHCOHS401AAHCWHS401equivalent26 June 2016

    This unit is equivalent to AHCOHS401A Maintain occupational health and safety (OHS) processes

  • AHCWHS401AHCWHS402not equivalent23 January 2023

    Minor changes to unit title and application. Major changes to performance criteria. Foundation skills added. Major and minor edits to performance and knowledge evidence and assessment conditions

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for AHCWHS401 and for its training package AHC (release 11.0), 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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Where AHCWHS401 is used

training.gov.au lists AHCWHS401 inside 36 training products, 2 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for AHCWHS401 in that product.

Current products 2 listed

CodeTraining productTypeAHCWHS401 is
AHC42021Certificate IV in Landscape Construction ManagementQualificationelective
AHC42421Certificate IV in Landscape DesignQualificationelective

Products no longer current 34 listed

The register still records AHCWHS401 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 productTypeAHCWHS401 is
ACM40517Certificate IV in Equine DentistryQualificationcore
ACM40717Certificate IV in Horse BreedingQualificationcore
AHC32716Certificate III in Rural MerchandisingQualificationcore
AHC33016Certificate III in Wool Clip PreparationQualificationcore
AHC40116Certificate IV in AgricultureQualificationcore
AHC40219Certificate IV in Protected HorticultureQualificationcore
AHC40316Certificate IV in Production HorticultureQualificationcore
AHC40320Certificate IV in Production HorticultureQualificationcore
AHC40416Certificate IV in HorticultureQualificationcore
AHC40516Certificate IV in Parks and GardensQualificationcore
Show the remaining 24 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeAHCWHS401 is
AHC40616Certificate IV in Production NurseryQualificationcore
AHC40620Certificate IV in Nursery OperationsQualificationcore
AHC40716Certificate IV in Retail NurseryQualificationcore
AHC40816Certificate IV in Sports Turf ManagementQualificationelective
AHC40916Certificate IV in Conservation and Land ManagementQualificationcore
AHC40920Certificate IV in Conservation and Ecosystem ManagementQualificationcore
AHC41016Certificate IV in AgribusinessQualificationcore
AHC41019Certificate IV in AgribusinessQualificationcore
AHC41116Certificate IV in IrrigationQualificationcore
AHC41119Certificate IV in Irrigation ManagementQualificationcore
AHC41316Certificate IV in Wool ClassingQualificationcore
AHC41416Certificate IV in Seed ProductionQualificationcore
AHC41516Certificate IV in Seed TestingQualificationcore
AHC41616Certificate IV in Organic FarmingQualificationcore
AHC41716Certificate IV in Pest ManagementQualificationcore
AHC41720Certificate IV in Pest ManagementQualificationcore
AHC42016Certificate IV in LandscapeQualificationcore
AHC42020Certificate IV in LandscapeQualificationcore
AHC42216Certificate IV in Shearing ContractingQualificationcore
AHC42320Certificate IV in Medicinal Cannabis Cultivation and ProductionQualificationcore
AHCSS00067Production Horticulture Supervisor Skill SetSkill setelective
AHCSS00089Business Skills For Sports Turf Management Skill SetSkill setelective
AHCSS00109Production Horticulture Supervisor Skill SetSkill setelective
AHCSS00126Mined Land Rehabilitation Project Coordinator Skill SetSkill setelective

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