HLTHIR301B Communicate and work effectively in health

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for HLTHIR301B ended on 5 May 2012 — 14 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 7 May 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
HLT07 — Health Training Package
Currency period ends
5 May 2012
Latest release
Release 1 · 25 March 2011
Supersedes
HLTHIR301A, HLTHIR1A
Superseded by
HLTHIR301C 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. HLTHIR301BSuperseded — equivalentCommunicate and work effectively in health
  2. equivalent
  3. HLTHIR301CSuperseded — not equivalentCommunicate and work effectively in health
  4. not equivalent
  5. CHCCOM005CurrentCommunicate and work in health or community services

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.

  • HLTHIR1AHLTHIR301Bequivalent24 March 2011

    Unit updated in V4 - equivalent competency outcome

  • HLTHIR301AHLTHIR301Bequivalent24 March 2011

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

  • HLTHIR301BHLTHIR301Cequivalent6 May 2012

    ISC upgrade changes to remove references to old OHS legislation and replace with references to new WHS legislation. No change to competency outcome.

Is HLTHIR301B on your scope?

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Where HLTHIR301B is used

training.gov.au lists HLTHIR301B inside 37 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for HLTHIR301B in that product.

Products no longer current 37 listed

The register still records HLTHIR301B 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 productTypeHLTHIR301B is
HLT21107Certificate II in Emergency Medical Service First ResponseQualificationelective
HLT21207Certificate II in Health Support ServicesQualificationelective
HLT21307Certificate II in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health CareQualificationelective
HLT30207Certificate III in Non-Emergency Client TransportQualificationelective
HLT31107Certificate III in Sterilisation ServicesQualificationelective
HLT31407Certificate III in Hospital/Health Services Pharmacy SupportQualificationelective
HLT31507Certificate III in Nutrition and Dietetic AssistanceQualificationelective
HLT31807Certificate III in Dental AssistingQualificationelective
HLT31907Certificate III in Ambulance Communications (Call-taking)Qualificationelective
HLT32007Certificate III in Mortuary Theatre PracticeQualificationelective
Show the remaining 27 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeHLTHIR301B is
HLT32107Certificate III in Prosthetic/Orthotic TechnologyQualificationelective
HLT32407Certificate III in Allied Health AssistanceQualificationelective
HLT32507Certificate III in Health Services AssistanceQualificationelective
HLT32607Certificate III in PathologyQualificationelective
HLT32707Certificate III in Dental Laboratory AssistingQualificationelective
HLT32807Certificate III in Health Support ServicesQualificationelective
HLT32907Certificate III in Health AdministrationQualificationelective
HLT33107Certificate III in Basic Health CareQualificationelective
HLT40307Certificate IV in Massage Therapy PracticeQualificationelective
HLT41007Certificate IV in Health Care (Ambulance)Qualificationelective
HLT41107Certificate IV in Ambulance CommunicationsQualificationelective
HLT41207Certificate IV in Ayurvedic Lifestyle ConsultationQualificationelective
HLT41307Certificate IV in Audiometric AssessmentQualificationelective
HLT41407Certificate IV in Cast TechnologyQualificationelective
HLT41507Certificate IV in Hyperbaric TechnologyQualificationelective
HLT41707Certificate IV in Neurophysiology TechnologyQualificationelective
HLT41907Certificate IV in Sleep TechnologyQualificationelective
HLT42107Certificate IV in Cardiac TechnologyQualificationelective
HLT42607Certificate IV in Anaesthetic TechnologyQualificationelective
HLT42707Certificate IV in AromatherapyQualificationelective
HLT42807Certificate IV in KinesiologyQualificationelective
HLT43107Certificate IV in Defence Health CareQualificationelective
HLT43307Certificate IV in Medical Practice AssistingQualificationelective
HLT43507Certificate IV in Optical DispensingQualificationelective
HLT43607Certificate IV in Rehabilitation and Assistive TechnologyQualificationelective
HLT43707Certificate IV in Optical TechnologyQualificationelective
HLT50607Diploma of Paramedical Science (Anaesthesia)Qualificationelective

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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