HLTOHC003 Apply and manage use of basic oral health products

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for HLTOHC003 ended on 28 April 2021 — 5 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 30 April 2022. 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A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
HLT — Health
Currency period ends
28 April 2021
Latest release
Release 1 · 6 August 2015
Supersedes
CHCOHC406B
Superseded by
HLTOHC009 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. HLTOHC003Superseded — equivalentApply and manage use of basic oral health products
  2. equivalent
  3. HLTOHC009CurrentApply and use basic oral health products

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.

  • CHCOHC406BHLTOHC003not equivalent5 August 2015

    Significant changes to the elements and performance criteria - Removed pre-requisite. New evidence requirements for assessment including volume and frequency requirements.

  • HLTOHC003HLTOHC009equivalent29 April 2021

    Mapping information updated. Updated to reflect current industry practices and terminology.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for HLTOHC003 and for its training package HLT (release 10.0), 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.

Is HLTOHC003 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether HLTOHC003 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 HLTOHC003 is used

training.gov.au lists HLTOHC003 inside 15 training products, 4 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for HLTOHC003 in that product.

Current products 4 listed

CodeTraining productTypeHLTOHC003 is
CHC43015Certificate IV in Ageing SupportQualificationelective
CHC43215Certificate IV in Alcohol and Other DrugsQualificationelective
CHC43315Certificate IV in Mental HealthQualificationelective
CHC53215Diploma of Alcohol and Other DrugsQualificationelective

Products no longer current 11 listed

The register still records HLTOHC003 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 productTypeHLTOHC003 is
CHC33015Certificate III in Individual SupportQualificationelective
CHC43115Certificate IV in DisabilityQualificationelective
HLT30113Certificate III in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health CareQualificationelective
HLT35015Certificate III in Dental AssistingQualificationelective
HLT40113Certificate IV in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health CareQualificationelective
HLT40213Certificate IV in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care PracticeQualificationelective
HLT43015Certificate IV in Allied Health AssistanceQualificationelective
HLT45015Certificate IV in Dental AssistingQualificationelective
HLT50113Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health CareQualificationelective
HLT50213Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care PracticeQualificationelective
Show the remaining 1 product no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeHLTOHC003 is
HLT54115Diploma of NursingQualificationelective

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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