SIR20216 Certificate II in Retail Services

Currenttraining.gov.au: current

Australia's national training register lists SIR20216 as current. It publishes no end date for the currency period.

Product type
Qualification
Training package
SIR — Retail Services Training Package
Currency period ends
no end date published
Latest release
Release 3 · 21 October 2020 · 3 releases in all
Supersedes
SIR20212
Superseded by
nothing — no replacement listed

Where the register points next

training.gov.au points at nothing after SIR20216: it is the current product, and no replacement is listed.

This product is listed on the National Schedule of Training Product Development: under review by SkillsEQuipped Ltd trading as Service and Creative Skills Australia (Retail Qualifications Continuum Review), with submission to the Assurance Body expected by 24 August 2026. That date has passed, so a revised product can reach the register at any time — but submission is not publication, and the record above is still what the register says today.

Source: National Schedule of Training Product Development, training.gov.au (© Commonwealth of Australia), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Excludes the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, trademarks and third-party material. View the Schedule. Schedule read on 25 August 2026 UTC.

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.

  • SIR20212SIR20216not equivalent30 March 2016

    • Not Equivalent • Number of units for completion reduced from 14 to 12 units; core reduced by 1 unit; electives reduced by 1 unit. • Packaging rules simplified.

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What SIR20216 is made of

training.gov.au lists 19 units for SIR20216: 7 core and 12 elective. To complete it, the register publishes a rule of 7 core units plus 5 electives12 units in all.

Core units 7 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
SIRXCEG001Engage the customercurrent
SIRXCOM001Communicate in the workplace to support team and customer outcomescurrent
SIRXIND001Work effectively in a service environmentcurrent
SIRXIND003Organise personal work requirementscurrent
SIRXPDK001Advise on products and servicescurrent
SIRXRSK001Identify and respond to security riskscurrent
SIRXWHS002Contribute to workplace health and safetycurrent

Elective units 12 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBWOR204Use business technologynot current
FSKLRG09Use strategies to respond to routine workplace problemsnot current
SIRRFSA001Handle food safely in a retail environmentcurrent
SIRRINV001Receive and handle retail stockcurrent
SIRRMER001Produce visual merchandise displayscurrent
SIRRMER002Merchandise food productscurrent
SIRXCEG008Manage disrespectful, aggressive or abusive customerscurrent
SIRXIND002Organise and maintain the store environmentcurrent
SIRXIND004Plan a career in the retail industrycurrent
SIRXOSM001Identify and review social media and online platforms for organisational usecurrent
SIRXPDK002Advise on food products and servicescurrent
SIRXSLS002Follow point-of-sale procedurescurrent

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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