BSBOHS408A Assist with compliance with OHS and other relevant laws

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for BSBOHS408A ended on 16 December 2012 — 13 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 18 December 2013 — 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).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
BSB07 — Business Services Training Package
Currency period ends
16 December 2012
Latest release
Release 1 · 10 March 2009
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
BSBWHS402A 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. BSBOHS408ASuperseded — equivalentAssist with compliance with OHS and other relevant laws
  2. equivalent
  3. BSBWHS402ASuperseded — equivalentAssist with compliance with WHS laws
  4. equivalent
  5. BSBWHS402Superseded — equivalentAssist with compliance with WHS laws
  6. equivalent
  7. BSBWHS412CurrentAssist with workplace compliance with WHS laws

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.

  • BSBOHS408ABSBWHS402Aequivalent17 December 2012

    Terminology updated to reflect new work health and safety legislation. Elements revised to focus on assisting. Elements 4 and 5 removed (reporting and monitoring). Language simplified. Elements and Performance Criteria reviewed and revised to minimise overlap and duplication with other BSBWHS units - EQUIVALENT.

Is BSBOHS408A on your scope?

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Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

Where BSBOHS408A is used

training.gov.au lists BSBOHS408A inside 4 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for BSBOHS408A in that product.

Products no longer current 4 listed

The register still records BSBOHS408A 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 productTypeBSBOHS408A is
BSB41407Certificate IV in Occupational Health and SafetyQualificationelective
DEF42512Certificate IV in Work Health SafetyQualificationcore
FPP40110Certificate IV in Pulping OperationsQualificationelective
FPP40210Certificate IV in Papermaking OperationsQualificationelective

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 28 August 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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