When must new enrolments into MSS80116 stop?

New enrolments are not permitted from 22 October 2019 — 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.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in MSS80116?

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).

MSS80116 Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Operations

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.

MSS80116Superseded — equivalentGraduate Certificate in Sustainable Operations
equivalent
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.

Is MSS80116 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether MSS80116 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Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

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.

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

Code	Unit	In this product
MSS017001	Analyse and determine organisational risk areas in sustainability	not current
MSS017004	Lead sustainable strategy deployment	not current

Elective units 23 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
MSMENV672	Develop workplace policy and procedures for environmental sustainability	current
MSS017002	Determine process loss through mass or energy balancing	not current
MSS017003	Identify and respond to external sustainability factors for an organisation	not current
MSS017005	Manage a major sustainability non-conformance	not current
MSS017006	Identify and improve sustainability interactions with the community	not current
MSS017007	Design for sustainability	not current
MSS017008	Develop a proactive social sustainability strategy	not current
MSS027002	Apply environmental legislation, codes and standards	not current
MSS407001	Prepare for and implement change	not current
MSS407002	Review operations practice tools and techniques	not current
MSS407003	Analyse process changes	not current
MSS407004	Facilitate improvements in the internal value stream	not current
MSS407005	Undertake a qualitative review of a process change	not current
MSS407006	Build relationships between teams in an operations environment	not current
MSS407008	Capture learning from daily activities in an organisation	not current
MSS407009	Facilitate improvements in the external value stream	not current
MSS407010	Improve visual management in the workplace	not current
MSS407011	Manage benchmarking studies	not current
MSS407012	Lead a process to determine and solve root cause for a complex problem	not current
MSS407013	Review continuous improvement processes	not current
MSS408001	Develop the competitive systems and practices approach	not current
MSS408002	Audit the use of competitive tools	not current
MSS408008	Analyse data for relevance to organisational learning	not 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.

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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