MSL20116 Certificate II in Sampling and Measurement

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for MSL20116 ended on 18 July 2018 — 8 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 20 July 2019. 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A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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
Qualification
Training package
MSL — Laboratory Operations
Currency period ends
18 July 2018
Latest release
Release 1 · 1 March 2016
Supersedes
MSL20109
Superseded by
MSL20118 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. MSL20116Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Sampling and Measurement
  2. equivalent
  3. MSL20118Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Sampling and Measurement
  4. equivalent
  5. MSL20122CurrentCertificate II in Sampling and Measurement

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.

  • MSL20109MSL20116equivalent29 February 2016

    Equivalent to and replaces MSL20109 Certificate II in Sampling and Measurement.

  • MSL20116MSL20118equivalent19 July 2018

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

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for MSL20116 and for its training package MSL (release 4.0), 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 MSL20116 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether MSL20116 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.

What MSL20116 is made of

training.gov.au lists 30 units for MSL20116: 4 core and 26 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 4 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
MSL912001Work within a laboratory or field workplace (induction)not current
MSL922001Record and present datanot current
MSL943002Participate in laboratory or field workplace safetynot current
MSMENV272Participate in environmentally sustainable work practicescurrent

Elective units 26 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
MSL913001Communicate with other peoplenot current
MSL913002Plan and conduct laboratory/field worknot current
MSL933001Maintain the laboratory/field workplace fit for purposenot current
MSL933002Contribute to the achievement of quality objectivesnot current
MSL933003Apply critical control point requirementsnot current
MSL933004Perform calibration checks on equipment and assist with its maintenancenot current
MSL943001Work safely with instruments that emit ionising radiationnot current
MSL952001Collect routine site samplesnot current
MSL952002Handle and transport samples or equipmentnot current
MSL953001Receive and prepare samples for testingnot current
MSL953002Operate a robotic sample preparation systemnot current
MSL963001Operate basic handblowing equipmentnot current
MSL963002Repair glass apparatus using simple glassblowing equipmentnot current
MSL972001Conduct routine site measurementsnot current
MSL973001Perform basic testsnot current
MSL973002Prepare working solutionsnot current
MSL973003Prepare culture medianot current
MSL973004Perform aseptic techniquesnot current
MSL973005Assist with fieldworknot current
MSL973006Prepare trial batches for evaluationnot current
MSL973007Perform microscopic examinationnot current
MSL973008Perform histological proceduresnot current
MSL973009Conduct field-based acceptance tests for construction materialsnot current
MSL973010Conduct laboratory-based acceptance tests for construction materialsnot current
MSL973011Perform fire pouring techniquesnot current
MSL973012Perform site investigation activitiesnot current

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

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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