MSS403041 Facilitate breakthrough improvements

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for MSS403041 ended on 23 June 2019 — 7 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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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A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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
MSS — Sustainability
Currency period ends
23 June 2019
Latest release
Release 1 · 22 June 2016
Supersedes
MSS403041A
Superseded by
MSS403054 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. MSS403041Superseded — equivalentFacilitate breakthrough improvements
  2. equivalent
  3. MSS403054Superseded — equivalentFacilitate breakthrough improvements
  4. equivalent
  5. MSS403058CurrentFacilitate breakthrough improvements

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.

  • MSS403041AMSS403041equivalent21 June 2016

    Supersedes and is equivalent to MSS403041A Facilitate breakthrough improvements

  • MSS403041MSS403054equivalent24 June 2019

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

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for MSS403041 and for its training package MSS (release 5.0), 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 MSS403041 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether MSS403041 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 MSS403041 is used

training.gov.au lists MSS403041 inside 15 training products, 1 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for MSS403041 in that product.

Current products 1 listed

CodeTraining productTypeMSS403041 is
MSM40116Certificate IV in Process ManufacturingQualificationelective

Products no longer current 14 listed

The register still records MSS403041 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 productTypeMSS403041 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
MSS30316Certificate III in Competitive Systems and PracticesQualificationelective
MSS40116Certificate IV in Sustainable OperationsQualificationelective
MSS40118Certificate IV in Sustainable OperationsQualificationelective
Show the remaining 4 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeMSS403041 is
MSS40316Certificate IV in Competitive Systems and PracticesQualificationelective
MSS50316Diploma of Competitive Systems and PracticesQualificationelective
MSS60316Advanced Diploma of Competitive Systems and PracticesQualificationelective
PMC40116Certificate IV in Manufactured Mineral ProductsQualificationelective

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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