SIR50212 Diploma of Visual Merchandising

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for SIR50212 ended on 14 August 2017 — 9 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 16 August 2018 — 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.

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).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Qualification
Training package
SIR07 — Retail Services Training Package
Currency period ends
14 August 2017
Latest release
Release 2 · 14 August 2012 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
SIR50207
Superseded by
SIR50217 not 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. SIR50212Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Visual Merchandising
  2. not equivalent
  3. SIR50217CurrentDiploma of Visual Merchandising

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.

  • SIR50207SIR50212equivalent12 June 2012

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

  • SIR50212SIR50217not equivalent15 August 2017

    • Not equivalent • Number of units for completion 16; core decreased by 7; electives remain the same • Packaging rules simplified.

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What SIR50212 is made of

training.gov.au lists 31 units for SIR50212: 15 core and 16 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 15 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBDES301AExplore the use of colournot current
BSBDES302AExplore and apply the creative design process to 2D formsnot current
BSBDES303AExplore and apply the creative design process to 3D formsnot current
BSBDES305ASource and apply information on the history and theory of designnot current
CUVDIG201ADevelop digital imaging skillsnot current
SIRRMER508Produce retail visual illustrationsnot current
SIRRMER509Manufacture visual merchandising signage and support structuresnot current
SIRRMER510Produce working drawingsnot current
SIRRMER511Plan, organise and maintain display lightingnot current
SIRRMER519Design and produce merchandising and in-store presentationsnot current
SIRXIND101Work effectively in a customer service environmentnot current
SIRXIND102Plan a career in the retail industrynot current
SIRXMER304Present productsnot current
SIRXMER407Plan and build visual presentations for a range of merchandise categoriesnot current
SIRXWHS101Apply safe work practicesnot current

Elective units 16 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
CUFDIG304ACreate visual design componentsnot current
CUVPHI302ACapture photographic imagesnot current
CUVPHI401ACapture images in response to a briefnot current
SIRRMER405Produce visual merchandising signsnot current
SIRRMER406Design, construct and maintain propsnot current
SIRRMER407Design merchandisersnot current
SIRRMER512Produce perspective drawings, plans and elevationsnot current
SIRRMER513Develop concept visualsnot current
SIRRMER514Design and produce store plans and floor layoutsnot current
SIRRMER515Manage visual merchandising projectsnot current
SIRRMER516Style merchandise for photographynot current
SIRRMER517Develop and apply strategies for merchandising and corporate presentationnot current
SIRRMER518Present design conceptsnot current
SIRXMER406Monitor in-store visual merchandising displaynot current
SIRXMPR001AProfile a retail marketnot current
SIRXQUA002ALead a team to foster innovationnot 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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