DEFCP008 Apply knowledge of WHS legislation

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for DEFCP008 ended on 20 October 2015 — 10 years ago. It names one replacement 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 22 October 2016. 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).

A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments in this product are not permitted today, so a course page advertising it is not permitted either — 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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
DEF12 — Defence Training Package
Currency period ends
20 October 2015
Latest release
Release 1 · 24 January 2013
Supersedes
DEFCP003A
Superseded by
DEFWHS017 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. DEFCP008Superseded — equivalentApply knowledge of WHS legislation
  2. equivalent
  3. DEFWHS017Deleted from the registerApply knowledge of WHS legislation

The register does not list a current endpoint for this chain: DEFWHS017 is the last product it points at, and DEFWHS017 is not marked current either.

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.

  • DEFCP003ADEFCP008equivalent23 January 2013

    Title Change forced Code Change

  • DEFCP008DEFWHS017equivalent21 October 2015

    Unit code updated. Content and formatting updated to comply with the new standards. All PC transitioned from passive to active voice. Assessment Requirements created drawing upon specified assessment information from superseded unit.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for DEFCP008 and for its training package DEF12 (release 2.0), 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.

  • DEFCP008_R1.docxDEFCP008 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024
  • DEFCP008_R1.pdfDEFCP008 release 1 · product document · published 26 January 2013

Is DEFCP008 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEFCP008 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

Public code, nothing else. We read your live scope from training.gov.au and answer here — we keep neither the code nor the answer; what remains is the two-minute abuse counter described on our privacy page.

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 DEFCP008 is used

training.gov.au lists DEFCP008 inside 2 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for DEFCP008 in that product.

Products no longer current 2 listed

The register still records DEFCP008 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 productTypeDEFCP008 is
DEF42512Certificate IV in Work Health SafetyQualificationelective
DEF52212Diploma of ComplianceQualificationcore

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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