MSL50118 Diploma of Laboratory Technology

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for MSL50118 ended on 18 December 2022 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 20 December 2023 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Qualification
Training package
MSL — Laboratory Operations
Currency period ends
18 December 2022
Latest release
Release 4 · 28 October 2021 · 4 releases in all
Supersedes
MSL50116
Superseded by
MSL50122 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. MSL50118Superseded — equivalentDiploma of Laboratory Technology
  2. equivalent
  3. MSL50122CurrentDiploma of Laboratory Technology

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.

  • MSL50116MSL50118equivalent19 July 2018

    Core units changed. Elective choices restricted. Specialisations added. Total number of units required for qualification changed.

  • MSL50118MSL50122equivalent19 December 2022

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

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What MSL50118 is made of

training.gov.au lists 57 units for MSL50118: 5 core and 52 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 5 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
MSL924003Process and interpret datanot current
MSL924004Use laboratory application softwarenot current
MSL925004Analyse data and report resultsnot current
MSL934004Maintain and calibrate instruments and equipmentnot current
MSL935007Monitor the quality of test results and datanot current

Elective units 52 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
FBPFST4004Perform microbiological procedures in the food industrycurrent
MSL904002Perform standard calibrationsnot current
MSL905004Perform non-standard calibrationscurrent
MSL905005Create or modify calibration procedurescurrent
MSL915003Provide information to customerscurrent
MSL915004Schedule laboratory work for a small teamcurrent
MSL916006Develop and maintain laboratory documentationnot current
MSL916007Manage and develop teamsnot current
MSL916008Supervise laboratory operations in work or functional areanot current
MSL916009Maintain registration and statutory or legal compliance in work or functional areanot current
MSL916010Manage complex projectsnot current
MSL925003Determine measurements of uncertaintynot current
MSL934005Contribute to the ongoing development of HACCP plansnot current
MSL935005Authorise the issue of test resultscurrent
MSL935006Assist in the maintenance of reference materialscurrent
MSL954003Relate anatomical and physiological features to laboratory samplesnot current
MSL954004Obtain representative samples in accordance with sampling plannot current
MSL974016Perform physical and mechanical testscurrent
MSL974018Conduct geotechnical site investigationscurrent
MSL974019Perform chemical tests and proceduresnot current
MSL974020Perform food testsnot current
MSL974021Perform biological proceduresnot current
MSL974022Undertake environmental field-based monitoringcurrent
MSL974026Perform tests to determine the properties of construction materialscurrent
MSL974028Classify soilscurrent
MSL974030Process body fluid specimens using a point of care testing devicenot current
MSL975028Apply advanced embedding and microtomy skillsnot current
MSL975029Perform histological testsnot current
MSL975030Perform immunohaematological testsnot current
MSL975031Supervise sampling, inspections and testing at construction sitesnot current
Show the remaining 22 elective units
CodeUnitIn this product
MSL975032Provide input to production trialscurrent
MSL975033Perform tissue and cell culture techniquesnot current
MSL975034Perform molecular biology tests and proceduresnot current
MSL975035Perform microbiological testsnot current
MSL975036Perform haematological testsnot current
MSL975037Perform chemical pathology testsnot current
MSL975038Conduct sensory analysiscurrent
MSL975039Apply electrophoretic techniquesnot current
MSL975040Apply routine chromatographic techniquesnot current
MSL975041Perform fire assay techniquescurrent
MSL975042Design and supervise complex environmental field surveyscurrent
MSL975043Prepare animal and plant material for displaycurrent
MSL975044Perform complex tests to measure engineering properties of materialscurrent
MSL975046Perform complex tests to measure chemical properties of materialsnot current
MSL975047Apply complex instrumental techniquesnot current
MSL975048Apply routine spectrometric techniquesnot current
MSL975049Apply routine electrometric techniquesnot current
MSL975050Perform food analysesnot current
MSL975051Supervise geotechnical site investigationscurrent
MSL975052Locate, record and collect forensic samplescurrent
MSL975055Classify building sitescurrent
MSMENV472Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practicescurrent

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 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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