Training packages modification status

Addition of 9 new elective production units of competency for aluminium smelting. The new units are coded “PMASMELT”.

The new units have also been added to the mapping tables.

Change: TDA40203A Certificate IV in Transport & Distribution - Aviation Flight Operations

To: TDA40107 Certificate IV in Aviation Operations (Commercial Pilot Aeroplane Licence) and

TDA40207 Certificate IV in Aviation Operations (Commercial Pilot Helicopter Licence)

Change title from 'Transport & Distribution' to 'Aviation Operations' to more accurately reflect the Aviation industry.

Reduces the requirements for completion from twenty eight (28) to fifteen (15) units. The fifteen (15) units are all placed at level IV.

Addition of imported TAA units to replace former BSZ units in the Wine Sector qualifications.

Addition of two qualifications in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Addition of two qualifications in food safety auditing.

Assessment Guidelines and Qualifications Framework text updated to conform to new requirements.

Addition of four high risk food safety auditing Specialist units to AQF 4 and 5.

New FDF units added to pharmaceutical manufacturing qualifications.

Addition of four pharmaceutical specialist units to the Certificate II in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.

Revision and recoding of pharmaceutical core units (GMP) at AQF 2 and 3.

Revision of food safety auditing units.

Version 5 includes all the fields and domains in Version 4 plus an expanded Business Management Services field with one new domain of Capability Development and Organisational Learning and updates to Small Business Management.

Addition of imported TAA units to replace former BSZ units in the Wine Sector qualifications.

Addition of two qualifications in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Addition of two qualifications in food safety auditing (refer Qualifications Framework pages 42 and 43).

Assessment Guidelines and Qualifications Framework text updated to conform to new requirements.

Addition of four high risk food safety auditing Specialist units to AQF 4 and 5.

New FDF units added to pharmaceutical manufacturing qualifications.

Addition of four pharmaceutical specialist units to the Certificate II in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.

Revision and recoding of pharmaceutical core units (GMP) at AQF 2 and 3.

Revision of food safety auditing units.

CUL04 Museum and Library/Information Services Training Package assessed in terms of Employability Skills; mandatory text updated; Museums and Library/Information Services components integrated; Employability Skills information added, mandatory text added and components integrated; units updated to reflect DEST template requirements (added Application of the unit and competency field to every unit; split Required Skills and Knowledge with more explicit expression of required skills; minor edits to encourage broader application of some units) through Innovation and Business Skills Australia (IBSA), the Industry Skills Council for innovation and business

The following has been changed in 274 units:

• Employability skills (ES) mandatory statement inserted; Key Competencies information removed. Code changed to reflect mandatory ES changes.
• Unit reformatted into latest template requirements; Skills and Knowledge improved.

Employability Skills mandatory text included in the introduction, qualification guidelines, assessment guidelines and each unit of competency; Employability Skills explicitly expressed in units. Category 1 changes made to correct typographical, grammatical and minor formatting errors.

Addition of new qualifications to the Community Services Training Package

Category II Change

Employability Skills mandatory text included in the introduction, qualification guidelines and assessment guidelines.

Employability Skills explicitly expressed in 140 units necessitating a change in the unit version identifier and qualification requirements. These changes have not altered the outcomes of individual units of competency.

Changes to Insurance Services nomenclature.

Insurance Services specialisations identified in existing Certificate III in Financial Services.

Insurance Services specialisations identified in existing Diploma of Financial Services.

New qualification in Bookkeeping.

New qualifications in Workers Compensation.

Employability Skills mandatory text included in the introduction, qualification guidelines, assessment guidelines and each unit of competency.

Employability Skills mandatory statement inserted in all units and Employability Skills explicitly expressed in all units – ‘maintain knowledge of industry products and services’ added to Role Context in every unit.

Minor additions to the following units to enhance Employability Skills:

• ICAS3234B Care for computer hardware
• ICAU1128B Operate a personal computer
• ICAU2005B Operate computer hardware
• ICAU2006B Operate computing packages
• ICAU2013B Integrate commercial computing packages
• ICAU2231B Use computer operating system.

The Training Package has been updated to the new unit structure and format and has been analysed and updated to improve the way Employability Skills are incorporated.

The Training Package has been reviewed in close consultation with Industry, regulatory authorities and RTOs to ensure a closer alignment with regulatory requirements while preserving the valued flexibility of the existing qualifications and packaging arrangements. To achieve this the Maritime Training Package has been organised into three streams of qualifications:

1. A coastal operations stream closely aligned with State and Territory certification arrangements for maritime occupations described and defined in Part D of the National Standard for Commercial Vessels.
2. An ocean-going stream closely aligned with AMSA certification arrangements for maritime occupations described and defined in Marine Orders under the Navigation Act and the STCW Code of the International Maritime Organisation.
3. An unregulated qualifications stream allowing the tailoring of qualifications to a range of non-regulated maritime occupations which provide a range of important support services on vessels.

Inclusion of Employability Skills in all DRT units of competency.

Inclusion of mandatory texts.

Deletion of Key Competencies in all DRT units of competency.

Correction of typing errors.

Inclusion of coal seam methane units.

Inclusion of mandatory texts.

Inclusion of Employability Skills in all BCC units of competency.

Deletion of Key Competencies in all BCC units of competency.

The Category II change has been provided to incorporate the requirements for a national qualification for Driving Instructors.  The qualification is constructed of eleven units of competency. A skills set of an additional two units of competency has also been developed to accommodate local requirements for Driving Instructors who carry out testing in some locations.

To meet new licensing requirements for installers of split air conditioning systems and domestic air conditioning and refrigeration systems, one existing unit has been modified and two new units included in the elective banks of MEM05.

1.     Amendments to Electronics and Computer Systems AQF 2 to 6 competency standard units with special emphasis on AQF 5 and 6, encompassing amendments to:

-      unit structures

-      Prerequisites (and, consequently Prerequisite chains)

-      essential knowledge and skills clauses within the Electronics (H) and Computer Systems (D) discipline units

2.     Amendments to Electronics and Computer systems qualifications, encompassing:

-      qualification structures

-      amendments steaming from changes made to units and Prerequisites comprising the qualifications.

3.     Amendment of unit Prerequisites.

4.     Amendment of the Regulatory/ Context of Assessment section in the Assessment Guidelines and the ‘Critical Aspects of Evidence’ section in each unit to better reflect jurisdictional regulatory requirements.

5.     Addition of two (2) new qualifications and related competency standard units for Renewable; namely;

-      UEE32007 Certificate III in Renewable Energy – ELV

-      UEE41907 Certificate IV in Electrical – Renewable Energy

6.     Removal of ‘UEENEEK025A Solve basic problems in photovoltaic energy apparatus’ from core of UEE21507 Certificate II in Renewable Energy.

7.     Inclusion of competency standard unit ‘UEENEEK042A Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices’ in the Stream Core of all Certificate II and Certificate III qualifications.

8.     Inclusion of competency standard unit ‘UEENEEK045A Implement & monitor, policies & procedures for environmentally sustainable electrotech work practice’ in the Stream Core of all Certificate IV qualifications.

9.     Inclusion of four new competency standard units for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Energy: UEENEEK042A; UEENEEK043A, UEENEEK045A, UEENEEK046A.

10.Amendment of EKAS alignments in competency standard unit ‘UEENEEP001B Disconnect and reconnect fixed wired electrical equipment connected to a Low Voltage supply’.

11.Importation of Competitive Manufacturing units: MCMS200A; MCMT220A; MCMT221A; MCMT240A; MCMT280A; MCMT281A.

12.Incorporation of revised Mandatory text to ensure compliance with the November 2006 version of the Training Package Development Handbook.

13.Revision of Unit Structures to ensure compliance with the November 2006 version of the Training Package Development Handbook.

14.Inclusion of ‘3) Employability Skills’.

15.Revision of the numbering of all subsequent sections to accommodate the inclusion of the Employability Skills section at 3).

16.Inclusion of the statement “All knowledge and skills detailed in this unit should be contextualised to current industry practices and technologies.

17.Changing of the number ‘7’ in paragraph “Solve problems in complex polyphase power circuits as described in 7) and including:” in section 9.2 of the unit to 8.

18.Complete removal of the ‘Key Competencies’ and ‘Skills Enabling Employment’ sections.

19.Inclusion in of Employability Skills statement tables for all Qualifications.

20.Inclusion of full Prerequisite chain details for each unit.

21.Technical and ‘Plain English’ edit of entire Training Package including minor editorial.

22.Amendment of all publishing-related information to UEE07.

23.Amendment of all unit codes to ‘UEENEE---B’. This is with the exception of the new units listed above, which have been coded ‘UEENEE---A’.

24.Removal of the following text from units UEENEEM002B, UEENEEM004B, UEENEEM006B, UEENEEM007B, UEENEEM008B, UEENEEM009B, UEENEEM010B, UEENEEM011B, UEENEEM012B, UEENEEM014B, UEENEEM016B, UEENEEM017B,                    “The endorsement(s) for each explosion-protection technique is designated with an [Ex] as a suffix to the unit title”.

25.Removal of the definition of ‘pre-requisite’ from Volume 1, Part 1, page 63.

26.Replacement of all references to ‘Skills Clusters’ with ‘Skills Sets.

27.Replacement of all references to ‘prerequisites’ with ‘pre-requisites’

28.Improved consistency of Volume 1, Part 3, Assessment Guidelines with Units via replacing ‘be consistent with the approved industry simulation policy’ with ‘be in accordance with industry and regulatory policy’.

29.Inclusion of ‘Schedule 6’ in the Elective Statement of the Packaging rules for UEE60207 Advanced Diploma of Electronics and Communications Engineering and UEE60407 Advanced Diploma of Computer Systems Engineering.

Category II changes

1.           Inclusion of Employability Skills in all MNC units of competency

2.           Deletion of Key Competencies in all MNC units of competency

3.           Inclusion of mandatory texts

4.           Correction of typing

5.           MNCC1001A Work safely to MNCC1001B Work safely

6.           Unit MNCU1046A Conduct winding operations - deleted from the qualification MNC30304 Cert III in Coal in Underground Coal Operations.

7.           Recoded, renamed and changes made to MNCG1031A Remove, fit and adjust wheels to MNCG1031B Remove and fit wheel

8.           Recoded and changes made to MNCG1032A Remove, repair and refit tyres and tubes to MNCG1032B Remove, repair and refit tyres and tubes.

9.           Recoded and changes made to unit MNCG1002A Implement and apply risk management processes to MNCG1002B Implement and apply risk management processes.

10.      MNCG1060A Operate support equipment - Included in MNC20204 Certificate II in Coal Preparation  (Vol Ia/Introduction/page 44) and MNC30204 Certificate III in Coal Preparation.

11.      Mapping of changes from MNC98 to MNC04 updated to show that the units MNCG1061A Operate light vehicle; MNCG1062A Operate medium vehicle to and MNCG1063A Operate heavy rigid vehicle from the MNC04 Training Package are not equivalent to the units MNC.G61.A Operate light vehicle; MNC.G62.A Operate medium vehicle to and MNC.G63.A Operate heavy rigid vehicle.

Category II changes

Unit added to MTM10207 Certificate I in Meat Processing (Meat Retailing) (Vol VI):

·          MTMR109A Monitor meat temperature from receival to sale.

Units added to MTM20307 Certificate II in Meat Processing (Meat Retailing) (Vol VI):

·          MTMR210A Make and sell sausages

·          MTMR211A Produce and sell value-added products

·          MTMR212A Receive meat products.

Units added to MTM30807 Certificate III in Meat Processing (Meat Retailing) (Vol VI):

·           MTMR317A Cure, corn and sell product

·           MTMR318A Assess and sell poultry product

·           MTMR319A Break carcases for retail sale

·           MTMR320A Locate, identify and assess cuts

·           BSBCMN317A Meet customer needs and expectations (Vol VII).

Units deleted from MTM20307 Certificate II in Meat Processing (Meat Retailing) (Vol VI) and Training Package:

·           MTMR205B Make sausages

·           MTMR206B Produce value-added products.

Units deleted from MTM30807 Certificate III in Meat Processing (Meat Retailing) (Vol VI), but still in other qualifications within the Training Package:

·           MTMPSR301B Cure and corn product

·           MTMSR301B Break carcase into primal cuts.

Movement of units from compulsory technical units to optional technical units in MTM30807 Certificate III in Meat Processing (Meat Retailing):

·           MTMR309B Prepare, roll, sew and net meat

·           MTMR310B Bone and fillet poultry.

Typographical, spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors corrected in all volumes.

Mapping of MTM07 Australian Meat Industry Training Package units of competency to MTM00 Australian Meat Industry Training Package units of competency (Vol I) updated.

Units of competency in MTM07 Australian Meat Industry Training Package and their Pre-requisite Requirements (Vol I) updated.

AQF qualifications in MTM07 Australian Meat Industry Training Package: Qualifications Structures (Vol I) updated.

Primary release.

CUF07 Screen and Media Training Package is a revision of CUF01 Film, Television, Radio and Multimedia Training Package.

CUF07 also sees the introduction of skill sets which provide pathways into the Diploma of Screen and Media and Diploma of Specialist Make-up Services as well as into qualifications in the BSB07 Business Services Training Package.

Category II changes

Unit added to MTM10207 Certificate I in Meat Processing

(Meat Retailing) (Vol VI):

•   MTMR109A Monitor meat temperature from receival to sale.

Units added to MTM20307 Certificate II in Meat Processing (Meat Retailing) (Vol VI):

•   MTMR210A Make and sell sausages

•   MTMR211A Produce and sell value-added products

•   MTMR212A Receive meat products.

Units added to MTM30807 Certificate III in Meat Processing (Meat Retailing) (Vol VI):

•   MTMR317A Cure, corn and sell product

•   MTMR318A Assess and sell poultry product

•   MTMR319A Break carcases for retail sale

•   MTMR320A Locate, identify and assess cuts

•   BSBCMN317A Meet customer needs and expectations (Vol VII).

Units deleted from MTM20307 Certificate II in Meat Processing (Meat Retailing) (Vol VI) and Training Package:

•   MTMR205B Make sausages

•   MTMR206B Produce value-added products.

Units deleted from MTM30807 Certificate III in Meat Processing (Meat Retailing) (Vol VI), but still in other qualifications within the Training Package:

•   MTMPSR301B Cure and corn product

•   MTMSR301B Break carcase into primal cuts.

Movement of units from compulsory technical units to optional technical units in MTM30807 Certificate III in Meat Processing (Meat Retailing):

•   MTMR309B Prepare, roll, sew and net meat

•   MTMR310B Bone and fillet poultry.

Category II Changes

Changes in 3 qualifications namely:

·      Certificate III in Humanitarian Services - mainly the qualification framework, revision of units and additional new units)

·      Certificate III in Financial Services (Accounts Clerical) – revision of ZWV units

·      Certificate IV in Humanitarian Services ((Finance) – revision of ZWV units

Change in Prerequisite requirements (i.e. Certificate III in Humanitarian Services is not a prerequisite in other qualifications)

Category 2 Changes

The access consulting sector has been redeveloped with 45 industry-specific, and 43 imported units of competency.  This reflects a decrease in the number of industry-specific units of competency.

• the unit PRDAC501A Access document of building work for access and conduct inspections during the building process was split into two new units (CPPACC5001A Access documentation of building work for access compliance and CPPACC5002A Inspect access compliance during the building process) to accurately represent the functions in the workplace;
• a new unit CPPACC5019A Coordinate the development of Disability Discrimination Act Action Plans was added to address a workplace function;
• several unit titles were modified to reflect intent more accurately;
• a number of industry-specific access consulting units were replaced with suitable cross-industry generic units;
• range statements were revised, and in some cases upgraded, to ensure that they reflected accurately the scope of work performed in each unit, particularly those related to the design function or the provision of higher-level access advice;
• Employability Skills were embedded (and key competencies removed) in all access consulting units;
• units of competency and qualifications were updated to meet compliance requirements for the National Training Information Service (NTIS) Training Package templates;
• packaging rules were modified by altering some core and elective units;
• packaging rules were modified to include audit functions in both qualifications; and
• three access auditing skill sets were developed.