Can an RTO still enrol new students in SIF30308?

For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 21 June 2014. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in SIF30308?

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).

SIF30308 Certificate III in Funeral 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.

SIF30308Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Funeral Operations
equivalent
SIF30313CurrentCertificate III in Funeral Operations

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.

WFS30202SIF30308equivalent18 February 2009
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
SIF30308SIF30313equivalent20 June 2013
Revised qualification provides greater flexibility to meet industry/organisational outcomes. Changes to packaging rules include the removal of specialisations and greater choice of imported units from other training packages and accredited courses. The total number of units required to complete this qualification is 14. For SIF30308, this was 13 or 14 units depending on specialist stream undertaken. The number of core units has decreased from 5 to 4. The number of elective units is 10. For SIF30308, this was 9 or 10 units depending on specialist stream undertaken.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for SIF30308 and for its training package SIF08 (release 1.1), 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.

SIF30308_R1.pdfSIF30308 release 1 · product document · published 20 July 2012
SIF30308_R1.docxSIF30308 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is SIF30308 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether SIF30308 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 SIF30308 is made of

training.gov.au lists 36 units for SIF30308. It does not mark them core or elective: the unit grid records N/A for every one of them. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. What it takes to complete the product is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Units listed 36 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
SIFBCR002A	Transfer coffins and caskets	`N/A`	not current
SIFBCR025A	Exhume a burial site	`N/A`	not current
SIFCCS001B	Provide service to clients	`N/A`	not current
SIFCCS003A	Liaise with community	`N/A`	not current
SIFCCS004A	Coordinate interaction with clients	`N/A`	not current
SIFFNL003A	Arrange funerals	`N/A`	not current
SIFFNL004A	Arrange and oversee viewings	`N/A`	not current
SIFFNL007A	Conduct a funeral	`N/A`	not current
SIFGLC001A	Maintain and care for historical records	`N/A`	not current
SIFGLC002A	Control and order goods	`N/A`	not current
SIFIND001B	Work effectively in the funeral services industry	`N/A`	not current
SIFIND002A	Deal with grief and trauma	`N/A`	not current
SIFIND003A	Participate in industry networks	`N/A`	not current
SIFMGT001A	Coordinate a team	`N/A`	not current
SIFMGT002A	Coordinate staff	`N/A`	not current
SIFMPR001A	Implement marketing and promotional activities	`N/A`	not current
SIFMWK001A	Encoffin the deceased person	`N/A`	not current
SIFMWK004B	Coordinate mortuary operations	`N/A`	not current
SIFMWK005A	Determine body preparation requirements	`N/A`	not current
SIFMWK006A	Cleanse and disinfect deceased bodies	`N/A`	not current
SIFMWK007A	Set facial features	`N/A`	not current
SIFMWK008A	Restore minor body damage	`N/A`	not current
SIFMWK009A	Restore head damage on autopsied cases	`N/A`	not current
SIFMWK010A	Restore and set eyes after eye donation	`N/A`	not current
SIFMWK011A	Dress bodies and apply cosmetics	`N/A`	not current
SIFOHS001A	Follow OHS procedures	`N/A`	not current
SIFOHS002A	Follow infection and contamination control procedures	`N/A`	not current
SIFOHS003A	Follow mortuary OHS procedures	`N/A`	not current
SIFOHS004A	Work in confined spaces	`N/A`	not current
SIFOHS005A	Implement and monitor infection and contamination control practices	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 6 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
SIFOHS006A	Implement and monitor OHS procedures	`N/A`	not current
SIFOHS007A	Identify hazards and assess risks in a cemetery or crematorium	`N/A`	not current
SIFSLS001A	Sell funeral and burial products and services	`N/A`	not current
SIFSLS002A	Sell pre-need funeral and burial products and services	`N/A`	not current
SRXEMR001A	Respond to emergency situations	`N/A`	not current
TAADEL301C	Provide training through instruction and demonstration of work skills	`N/A`	not current

The register publishes this unit grid without a core or elective flag, so this page does not split it into core and elective. "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 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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