MSS403040 Facilitate and improve implementation of 5S

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for MSS403040 ended on 14 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 16 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).

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
MSS — Sustainability
Currency period ends
14 December 2022
Latest release
Release 1 · 22 June 2016
Supersedes
MSS403040A
Superseded by
MSS403045 not 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. MSS403040Superseded — not equivalentFacilitate and improve implementation of 5S
  2. not equivalent
  3. MSS403045CurrentFacilitate and improve 5S

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.

  • MSS403040AMSS403040equivalent21 June 2016

    Supersedes and is equivalent to MSS403040A Facilitate and improve implementation of 5S

  • MSS403040MSS403045not equivalent15 December 2022

    Supersedes and is non-equivalent to MSS403040 Facilitate and improve implementation of 5S.

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Where MSS403040 is used

training.gov.au lists MSS403040 inside 32 training products, 12 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for MSS403040 in that product.

Current products 12 listed

CodeTraining productTypeMSS403040 is
DEF30220Certificate III in Explosive Ordnance ManufactureQualificationelective
FBP30121Certificate III in Food ProcessingQualificationelective
FBP31121Certificate III in High Volume BakingQualificationelective
FBP40321Certificate IV in Food ProcessingQualificationelective
FBP40522Certificate IV in Pharmaceutical ManufacturingQualificationelective
ICP40120Certificate IV in Printing and Graphic Arts ManagementQualificationelective
ICP50120Diploma of Printing and Graphic Arts Business ManagementQualificationelective
MSM40116Certificate IV in Process ManufacturingQualificationelective
PMA40116Certificate IV in Process Plant TechnologyQualificationelective
PMA50116Diploma of Process Plant TechnologyQualificationelective
PMA60116Advanced Diploma of Process Plant TechnologyQualificationelective
PPM40121Certificate IV in Pulp and Paper OperationsQualificationelective

Products no longer current 20 listed

The register still records MSS403040 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 productTypeMSS403040 is
FBP30117Certificate III in Food ProcessingQualificationelective
FBP30217Certificate III in Plant BakingQualificationelective
FBP30617Certificate III in Food Processing (Sales)Qualificationelective
FBP40117Certificate IV in Flour MillingQualificationelective
FBP40318Certificate IV in Food ProcessingQualificationelective
FBP40518Certificate IV in Pharmaceutical ManufacturingQualificationelective
MSM41015Certificate IV in Recreational VehiclesQualificationelective
MSM41115Certificate IV in Recreational Vehicle and Accessories RetailingQualificationelective
MSS30316Certificate III in Competitive Systems and PracticesQualificationelective
MSS40116Certificate IV in Sustainable OperationsQualificationelective
Show the remaining 10 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeMSS403040 is
MSS40118Certificate IV in Sustainable OperationsQualificationelective
MSS40316Certificate IV in Competitive Systems and PracticesQualificationelective
MSS50316Diploma of Competitive Systems and PracticesQualificationelective
MSS60316Advanced Diploma of Competitive Systems and PracticesQualificationelective
PMB40116Certificate IV in Polymer TechnologyQualificationelective
PMC40116Certificate IV in Manufactured Mineral ProductsQualificationelective
PPM30116Certificate III in Pulping OperationsQualificationelective
PPM30216Certificate III in Papermaking OperationsQualificationelective
PPM40116Certificate IV in Pulping OperationsQualificationelective
PPM40216Certificate IV in Papermaking OperationsQualificationelective

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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