Modification History
Release 1. Supersedes and is equivalent to MSS70111 Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Operations.
Qualification Description
The MSS80116 Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Operations provides professional development training and recognition to people exercising leadership or change management functions in an organisation on sustainability, including setting of sustainability strategy and leadership and planning for the deployment of the sustainability strategy.
The qualification applies to individuals who have responsibility at a strategy level for improving sustainability within an organisation. Aspects of this responsibility may include regulatory responses, setting and monitoring of sustainability related performance indicators, liaison with stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, value chain members and the local and general community. Target groups include supervisors, managers and technical experts responsible for implementing sustainability improvement strategies and practices in their organisation and/or all or part of the value chain.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Entry Requirements
Entrants to the MSS80116 Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Operations should have one or more of the following:
- Advanced Diploma or Diploma in a sustainability related discipline or relevant technical field, or a relevant Certificate IV or Certificate III together with significant relevant vocational practice in a relevant technical field
- a Bachelor Degree in a relevant technical field
- another relevant higher education qualification, often with relevant vocational practice
- relevant extensive vocational practice, without formal qualifications but which result in appropriate entry level skills.
Entrants for the qualification should also possess operational or technical skills related to the organisation seeking sustainability improvements either through prior experience or previous study.
Packaging Rules
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To be awarded the MSS80116 Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Operations competency must be achieved in five (5) units of competency.
One (1) elective unit may be selected from this Training Package, other endorsed Training Packages and accredited courses, where that unit is available at Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma level. Note : Units with prerequisite requirements are marked with an asterisk*. Prerequisite units must be counted in the total number of units required for achievement of the qualification. Refer to individual units for details. |
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Core units of competency |
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Unit code |
Unit title |
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MSS017001 |
Analyse and determine organisational risk areas in sustainability |
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MSS017004 |
Lead sustainable strategy deployment |
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Elective units of competency Group A |
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Unit code |
Unit title |
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MSS017002 |
Determine process loss through mass or energy balancing |
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MSS017003 |
Identify and respond to external sustainability factors for an organisation |
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MSS017005 |
Manage a major sustainability non-conformance |
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MSS017006 |
Identify and improve sustainability interactions relations with the community |
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MSS017007 |
Design for sustainability |
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MSS017008 |
Develop a proactive social sustainability strategy |
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MSS027002 |
Apply environmental legislation, codes and standards |
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MSS407012 |
Lead a problem solving process to determine and solve root cause |
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Group B |
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Unit code |
Unit title |
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MSS407013 |
Review continuous improvement processes |
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MSS407001 |
Prepare for and implement change |
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MSS407002 |
Review operations practice tools and techniques |
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MSS407003 |
Analyse process changes |
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MSS407004 |
Facilitate improvements in the internal value chain |
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MSS407005 |
Undertake a qualitative review of a process change |
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MSS407006 |
Build relationships between teams in an operations environment |
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MSS407008 |
Capture learning from daily activities in an organisation |
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MSS407009 |
Facilitate improvements in the external value chain |
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MSS407010 |
Improve visual management in the workplace |
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MSS407011 |
Manage benchmarking studies |
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MSS408008 |
Analyse data for relevance to organisational learning |
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MSS408001 |
Develop the competitive systems and practices approach |
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MSS408002 |
Audit the use of competitive tools |
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MSMENV672 |
Develop workplace policy and procedures for environmental sustainability |
Qualification Mapping Information
Release 1. Supersedes and is equivalent to MSS70111 Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Operations.
Links
Companion Volume implementation guides are found in VETNet - https://vetnet.gov.au/Pages/TrainingDocs.aspx?q=5b04f318-804f-4dc0-9463-c3fb9a3fe998
