When must new enrolments into SIF40208 stop?

New enrolments are not permitted from 10 October 2014 — 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 SIF40208?

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).

SIF40208 Certificate IV in Embalming

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.

SIF40208Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Embalming
equivalent
SIF40213CurrentCertificate IV in Embalming

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.

WFS40202SIF40208equivalent18 February 2009
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
SIF40208SIF40213equivalent9 October 2013
E Revised qualification builds on specialist skills. The total number of units required to complete this qualification has increased from 20 to 22. The number of core units has increased from 17 to 19. The number of elective units remains at 3.

Is SIF40208 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether SIF40208 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Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.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 SIF40208 is made of

training.gov.au lists 38 units for SIF40208. 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 38 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBMGT403A	Implement continuous improvement	`N/A`	not current
HLTFA301B	Apply first aid	`N/A`	not current
SIFCCS001B	Provide service to clients	`N/A`	not current
SIFCCS003A	Liaise with community	`N/A`	not current
SIFGLC001A	Maintain and care for historical records	`N/A`	not current
SIFGLC002A	Control and order goods	`N/A`	not current
SIFGLC003A	Conduct internal quality audits	`N/A`	not current
SIFGLC004A	Monitor contracted services and supplies	`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
SIFMGT003A	Supervise staff	`N/A`	not current
SIFMPR002A	Prepare and conduct tours	`N/A`	not current
SIFMPR004A	Develop marketing strategies and activities	`N/A`	not current
SIFMWK001A	Encoffin the deceased person	`N/A`	not current
SIFMWK002A	Maintain linen supplies	`N/A`	not current
SIFMWK003A	Clean and sterilise mortuary items and equipment	`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
SIFMWK012A	Supervise mortuary operations	`N/A`	not current
SIFMWK013A	Determine embalming requirements	`N/A`	not current
SIFMWK014A	Treat the arterial system	`N/A`	not current
SIFMWK015A	Treat abdominal and thoracic cavities	`N/A`	not current

Show the remaining 8 units

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
SIFMWK016A	Treat tissue gas	`N/A`	not current
SIFOHS002A	Follow infection and contamination control procedures	`N/A`	not current
SIFOHS003A	Follow mortuary OHS procedures	`N/A`	not current
SIFOHS005A	Implement and monitor infection and contamination control practices	`N/A`	not current
SIRXOHS003A	Provide a safe working environment	`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
TLIJ107C	Apply quality procedures	`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 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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