MSS50218 Diploma of Environmental Monitoring and Technology

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for MSS50218 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).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
MSS — Sustainability
Currency period ends
14 December 2022
Latest release
Release 4 · 5 April 2022 · 4 releases in all
Supersedes
MSS50216
Superseded by
MSS50222 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. MSS50218Superseded — equivalentDiploma of Environmental Monitoring and Technology
  2. equivalent
  3. MSS50222CurrentDiploma of Environmental Monitoring and 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.

  • MSS50216MSS50218equivalent21 October 2018

    Code updated, core units updated, qualification template updated, qualification description simplified.

  • MSS50218MSS50222equivalent15 December 2022

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

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What MSS50218 is made of

training.gov.au lists 57 units for MSS50218: 11 core and 46 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 11 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
MSL943004Participate in laboratory or field workplace safetycurrent
MSL952001Collect routine site samplesnot current
MSL974022Undertake environmental field-based monitoringcurrent
MSMENV472Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practicescurrent
MSS024014Implement environmental management plans and proceduresnot current
MSS024015Apply an understanding of environmental principles to a sitenot current
MSS024016Process and present environmental datanot current
MSS025017Assist with assessing site environmental indicatorsnot current
MSS025018Assess the environmental risk and impact of a project activity or processnot current
MSS025019Report environmental datanot current
MSS025020Provide environmental information to customersnot current

Elective units 46 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBWHS419Contribute to implementing WHS monitoring processescurrent
CPPWMT4009Conduct waste auditscurrent
CUAPHI302Capture photographic imagesnot current
HLTAID011Provide First Aidcurrent
MSL904002Perform standard calibrationsnot current
MSL924004Use laboratory application softwarenot current
MSL934004Maintain and calibrate instruments and equipmentnot current
MSL954004Obtain representative samples in accordance with sampling plannot current
MSL973013Perform basic testsnot current
MSL973014Prepare working solutionsnot current
MSL973016Perform aseptic techniquesnot current
MSL973019Perform microscopic examinationnot current
MSL973024Perform site investigation activitiescurrent
MSL974018Conduct geotechnical site investigationscurrent
MSL974019Perform chemical tests and proceduresnot current
MSL974021Perform biological proceduresnot current
MSL974024Undertake field-based, remote-sensing monitoringnot current
MSL975042Design and supervise complex environmental field surveyscurrent
MSL975045Perform laboratory-based ecological techniquesnot current
MSL975051Supervise geotechnical site investigationscurrent
MSMENV272Participate in environmentally sustainable work practicescurrent
MSS015011Conduct a sustainability energy auditnot current
MSS015021Measure and report carbon footprint of a product or product classnot current
MSS015028Conduct a sustainable water use auditnot current
MSS015030Conduct an emissions auditnot current
MSS024013Work and communicate effectively as an environmental techniciannot current
MSS024017Collect spatial and discrete environmental datanot current
MSS024018Perform sampling and testing of waternot current
MSS024019Collect and evaluate meteorological datanot current
MSS024020Recognise common geological landforms and samplesnot current
Show the remaining 16 elective units
CodeUnitIn this product
MSS024022Perform environmental biological techniquesnot current
MSS024023Navigate in urban, regional and remote areasnot current
MSS024024Undertake simple environmental project activitiesnot current
MSS025005Produce site mapsnot current
MSS025008Monitor and evaluate noisenot current
MSS025009Perform sampling and testing of airnot current
MSS025012Perform environmental microbiological testsnot current
MSS025013Assist with assessing and monitoring wetlandsnot current
MSS025014Perform sampling and testing of contaminated sitesnot current
MSS025021Collect and evaluate groundwater datanot current
MSS025022Perform sampling and testing of soilsnot current
MSS025023Plan and conduct environmental project worknot current
PSPRAD003Perform basic radiation measurementsnot current
PSPRAD007Monitor radiationnot current
PUAFER009Participate as a member of a facility emergency response teamcurrent
TAEDEL301Provide work skill instructionnot 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.

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