DEFWHS017 Apply knowledge of WHS legislation

deletedthe status token training.gov.au records

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

The status above is the one training.gov.au records for DEFWHS017, written exactly as the register writes it. It is not one of the three we put into words, so we leave it in the register's own terms.

Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
DEF — Defence Training Package
Currency period ends
8 February 2021
Latest release
Release 1 · 22 October 2015
Supersedes
DEFCP008
Superseded by
nothing — no replacement listed

Where the register points next

training.gov.au does not publish a supersession path from DEFWHS017. There is no chain to follow from here.

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.

  • 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 Assessment Requirements created drawing upon specified assessment information from superseded unit.

Is DEFWHS017 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEFWHS017 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Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

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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 DEFWHS017 is used

training.gov.au lists DEFWHS017 inside 1 training product, which it no longer lists as current. It is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for DEFWHS017 in that product.

Products no longer current 1 listed

The register still records DEFWHS017 inside this one, but it no longer recommends it as current. It is here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at it.

CodeTraining productTypeDEFWHS017 is
DEF43315Certificate IV in Work Health SafetyQualificationelective

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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