MSS80116 Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Operations

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for MSS80116 ended on 20 October 2018 — 7 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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Product type
Qualification
Training package
MSS — Sustainability
Currency period ends
20 October 2018
Latest release
Release 1 · 22 June 2016
Supersedes
MSS70111
Superseded by
MSS80118 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. MSS80116Superseded — equivalentGraduate Certificate in Sustainable Operations
  2. equivalent
  3. MSS80118Deleted from the registerGraduate Certificate in Sustainable Operations

The register does not list a current endpoint for this chain: MSS80118 is the last product it points at, and MSS80118 is not marked current either.

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.

  • MSS70111MSS80116equivalent21 June 2016

    Supersedes and is equivalent to MSS70111 Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Operations

  • MSS80116MSS80118equivalent21 October 2018

    Code updated, core units updated, qualification template updated, qualification description changed, entry requirements simplified and changes to elective list.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for MSS80116 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 MSS80116 on your scope?

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What MSS80116 is made of

training.gov.au lists 25 units for MSS80116: 2 core and 23 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 2 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
MSS017001Analyse and determine organisational risk areas in sustainabilitynot current
MSS017004Lead sustainable strategy deploymentnot current

Elective units 23 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
MSMENV672Develop workplace policy and procedures for environmental sustainabilitycurrent
MSS017002Determine process loss through mass or energy balancingnot current
MSS017003Identify and respond to external sustainability factors for an organisationnot current
MSS017005Manage a major sustainability non-conformancenot current
MSS017006Identify and improve sustainability interactions with the communitynot current
MSS017007Design for sustainabilitynot current
MSS017008Develop a proactive social sustainability strategynot current
MSS027002Apply environmental legislation, codes and standardsnot current
MSS407001Prepare for and implement changenot current
MSS407002Review operations practice tools and techniquesnot current
MSS407003Analyse process changesnot current
MSS407004Facilitate improvements in the internal value streamnot current
MSS407005Undertake a qualitative review of a process changenot current
MSS407006Build relationships between teams in an operations environmentnot current
MSS407008Capture learning from daily activities in an organisationnot current
MSS407009Facilitate improvements in the external value streamnot current
MSS407010Improve visual management in the workplacenot current
MSS407011Manage benchmarking studiesnot current
MSS407012Lead a process to determine and solve root cause for a complex problemnot current
MSS407013Review continuous improvement processesnot current
MSS408001Develop the competitive systems and practices approachnot current
MSS408002Audit the use of competitive toolsnot current
MSS408008Analyse data for relevance to organisational learningnot current

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