HLTOPT401B Perform technical procedures for the production of ophthalmic appliances

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for HLTOPT401B ended on 5 May 2012 — 14 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 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
HLTOPT401C 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. HLTOPT401BSuperseded — equivalentPerform technical procedures for the production of ophthalmic appliances
  2. equivalent
  3. HLTOPT401CDeleted from the registerPerform technical procedures for the production of ophthalmic appliances

The register does not list a current endpoint for this chain: HLTOPT401C is the last product it points at, and HLTOPT401C 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.

  • HLTOPT401BHLTOPT401Cequivalent6 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 HLTOPT401B on your scope?

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Where HLTOPT401B is used

training.gov.au lists HLTOPT401B inside 2 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for HLTOPT401B in that product.

Products no longer current 2 listed

The register still records HLTOPT401B 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 productTypeHLTOPT401B is
HLT43707Certificate IV in Optical TechnologyQualificationelective
HLTSS00016Optical process work skill setSkill setelective

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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