Nominal hours for units of competency from the

MSS Sustainability

Updated: 02 Nov 2025

Unit Code	Unit Title	Nominal Hours
MEM30016A	Assist in the analysis of a supply chain	20
TLIR4002	Source goods/services and evaluate contractors	30
MSMSUP390	Use structured problem-solving tools	40
MSMENV472	Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices	40
MSMENV272	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	30
MSMWHS200	Work safely	30
MSL952001	Collect routine site samples	30
CPPWMT4003	Implement waste management plans	25
PMASUP520	Review procedures to minimise environmental impact of process	40
MSMENV672	Develop workplace policy and procedures for environmental sustainability	50
MSMSUP301	Apply HACCP to the workplace	40
MSL975045	Perform laboratory-based ecological techniques	60
MSL954004	Obtain representative samples in accordance with sampling plan	40
MSL904002	Perform standard calibrations	50
MSL974019	Perform chemical tests and procedures	100
MSL974021	Perform biological procedures	130
MSL974022	Undertake environmental field-based monitoring	80
MSL973013	Perform basic tests	60
MSL943004	Participate in laboratory or field workplace safety	40
MSL975042	Design and supervise complex environmental field surveys	40
MSL973016	Perform aseptic techniques	40
MSL973019	Perform microscopic examination	40
MSL975051	Supervise geotechnical site investigations	80
MSL974018	Conduct geotechnical site investigations	60
MSL924004	Use laboratory application software	60
PUAFER009	Participate as a member of a facility emergency response team	35
BSBWHS419	Contribute to implementing WHS monitoring processes	60
CPPWMT4010	Assess and advise on waste avoidance options	60
CPPWMT4009	Conduct waste audits	60
TLIX0010X	Enable traceability in supply chains	50
TLIX0015X	Manage fundamental aspects of supply chains	60
TLIX0011X	Establish blockchain in supply chains	80
TLIX0012X	Lead digital supply chain implementation	50
TLIX0009X	Employ digital supply chain risk management practices	60
MSS405089	Develop a business case for improved energy management	60
MSS405088	Plan, implement and monitor energy management	70
MSS405087	Investigate energy management as a business issue	60
HLTAID011	Provide First Aid	18
BSBOPS403	Apply business risk management processes	50
BSBPMG427	Apply project procurement procedures	40
BSBPMG429	Apply project stakeholder engagement techniques	40
BSBPMG428	Apply project life cycle management processes	40
BSBPMG430	Undertake project work	60
BSBPMG536	Manage project risk	40
BSBPMG537	Manage project procurement	40
BSBPMG538	Manage project stakeholder engagement	40
BSBSTR502	Facilitate continuous improvement	60
BSBSTR801	Lead innovative thinking and practice	80
BSBSTR802	Lead strategic planning processes for an organisation	100
BSBTWK502	Manage team effectiveness	60
CPPSSI4024	Source and assess spatial data	100
CUAPHI312	Capture photographic images	60
MSS024026	Apply environmental management procedures	55
MSS402032	Interpret cost and waste in terms of customer value	30
MSS402087	Apply cost factors to work practices	40
MSS405027	Facilitate a competitive systems and practice culture in an organisation	60
MSS405090	Adapt a proactive maintenance strategy to the process operations sector	60
MSS025026	Perform sampling and testing of air	80
MSS404088	Undertake proactive maintenance analyses	50
MSS025035	Perform sampling and testing of soils	80
MSS407032	Facilitate improvements in the internal value stream	80
MSS015047	Develop strategic sustainability plans	100
MSS404062	Facilitate the use of planning software systems in a work area or team	50
MSS014018	Apply circularity design thinking to all work streams	60
MSS402004	Sustain process improvements	40
MSS025032	Report environmental data	40
MSS015052	Develop regulated sustainability reports	70
MSS402086	Use planning software systems in operations	40
MSS405019	Develop a Balanced Scorecard	40
MSS405066	Establish data collection and processing protocols	60
MSS403004	Contribute to Agile work practices	50
MSS407034	Respond to a major non-conformance	80
MSS025033	Provide environmental information to customers	40
MSS405035	Design a process layout	80
MSS403022	Facilitate a Just in Time system	50
MSS405039	Implement and optimise levelled pull system	60
MSS015044	Design sustainable product or process	100
MSS014019	Facilitate team engagement with sustainability	60
MSS405045	Manage relationships with non-customer external organisations	60
MSS408013	Develop best practice model for future state operations	80
MSS402085	Contribute to the application of a proactive maintenance strategy	30
MSS407026	Lead a process to determine and solve root cause for a complex problem	80
MSS404063	Facilitate the use of SCADA systems in a team or work area	50
MSS405078	Lead and manage people within competitive systems and practices	80
MSS403012	Facilitate change in a competitive systems and practices environment	60
MSS405034	Develop a Just in Time system	60
MSS014016	Evaluate sustainability impact from a work area or process	50
MSS402054	Monitor process capability	30
MSS027025	Coordinate environmental management activities	110
MSS025031	Assess the environmental risk and impact of a project activity or process	80
MSS404089	Assist in implementing a proactive maintenance strategy	50
MSS024034	Navigate in urban, regional and remote areas
MSS405018	Implement competitive systems and practices in a one-off or small batch environment	60
MSS024030	Perform sampling and testing of water	80
MSS407025	Build internal relationships to support competitive systems and practices	80
MSS015048	Implement sustainability plans	50
MSS403014	Facilitate team engagement with competitive systems and practices	60
MSS017020	Lead sustainability strategy deployment	110
MSS017023	Establish collaborative business arrangements	60
MSS403058	Facilitate breakthrough improvements	40
MSS015043	Develop strategies for more sustainable use of resources	90
MSS024028	Process and present environmental data	40
MSS405017	Develop business plans in an organisation implementing competitive systems and practices	60
MSS405044	Facilitate Agile projects	50
MSS403056	Map an internal value stream	40
MSS407030	Manage benchmarking studies	80
MSS407029	Improve visual management in the workplace	80
MSS402042	Apply 5S procedures	40
MSS024027	Participate in environmental field work	140
MSS402057	Participate in breakthrough improvements	40
MSS405077	Develop a proactive maintenance strategy	60
MSS405000	Develop competitive systems and practices for operational objectives	60
MSS025029	Perform sampling and testing for site contamination	80
MSS403026	Work within a constrained process	30
MSS403025	Monitor a levelled pull system of operations	50
MSS403031	Analyse and improve manual handling processes	50
MSS403080	Improve changeovers	30
MSS403036	Identify product groups to inform improvement priorities	30
MSS014017	Implement social sustainability in work practices	40
MSS405057	Design an experiment	80
MSS405055	Manage application of Six Sigma for process control and improvement	60
MSS025025	Monitor and evaluate noise	60
MSS403082	Improve cost factors in work practices	50
MSS405076	Facilitate the development of a new product	80
MSS024033	Identify environmentally significant organisms	100
MSS024025	Work and communicate effectively as an environmental technician	35
MSS405038	Optimise process costs	60
MSS402055	Apply quality standards	30
MSS408016	Develop the value stream	60
MSS402003	Apply competitive systems and practices	40
MSS405026	Manage a value stream	60
MSS015049	Conduct a sustainable water use audit	40
MSS403081	Ensure process improvements are sustained	50
MSS015040	Conduct a sustainability energy audit	40
MSS405028	Develop a communications strategy to support operations	50
MSS402062	Use SCADA systems in operations	30
MSS408012	Develop problem solving capability of an organisation	80
MSS403008	Facilitate use of a Balanced Scorecard for performance improvement	40
MSS015054	Lead circular economy initiatives in the supply chain	80
MSS408011	Develop knowledge systems and learning processes for an organisation	80
MSS404080	Undertake process capability improvements	50
MSS403057	Map an operational process	40
MSS408018	Analyse data to determine organisational learning	80
MSS405047	Undertake analysis of cost and waste in terms of customer value	60
MSS407024	Prepare for and implement change	80
MSS405043	Implement improvement systems in an organisation	80
MSS024032	Document simple geological information for a site	40
MSS402056	Apply and improve standardised work practices	30
MSS407033	Qualitatively review and improve process changes	80
MSS404001	Lead Agile team processes	50
MSS408014	Establish systemic supports for competitive systems and practices	80
MSS025030	Assist with assessing site environmental indicators	160
MSS408017	Analyse and refine improvement systems	80
MSS025024	Produce site maps	60
MSS405042	Manage 5S system in an organisation	60
MSS404051	Mistake proof a process	50
MSS403045	Facilitate and improve 5S	50
MSS403003	Contribute to improvements in competitive systems and practices	50
MSS405025	Analyse and map a value stream	60
MSS025036	Plan and conduct environmental project work	100
MSS405091	Adapt a proactive maintenance strategy for a seasonal or cyclical business	60
MSS407023	Quantitatively analyse impact of process changes	80
MSS015042	Measure and report carbon footprint	95
MSS405037	Facilitate application of theory of constraints	50
MSS015050	Conduct an emissions audit	40
MSS404055	Use DMAIC techniques	40
MSS024031	Collect and evaluate meteorological data	40
MSS025028	Assist with assessing and monitoring wetlands	50
MSS407031	Review continuous improvement processes	80
MSS014015	Improve sustainability through readily implementable change
MSS403009	Facilitate implementation of competitive systems and practices in a service environment	50
MSS017021	Set strategic direction for circularity	80
MSS402011	Manage the impact of change on own work	40
MSS017022	Establish systemic supports for circularity	60
MSS027026	Implement environmental legislation, codes and standards
MSS405029	Develop quick changeover procedures	60
MSS408015	Develop the competitive systems and practices approach	80
MSS402022	Apply quick changeover procedures	40
MSS403059	Facilitate continuous improvement through the use of standardised procedures and practices	40
MSS015046	Develop a business case for sustainability improvements	60
MSS403037	Implement the visual workplace	40
MSS014020	Optimise sustainability performance of a work area or process	60
MSS405065	Develop the application of enterprise control systems in an organisation	60
MSS402084	Undertake root cause analysis	50
MSS025034	Collect and evaluate groundwater data	60
MSS404090	Support proactive maintenance	50
MSS405046	Manage workplace learning	80
MSS015045	Develop required sustainability reports	100
MSS404056	Apply statistics to operational processes	40
MSS405056	Use three or six sigma processes to determine and improve process capability	80
MSS024029	Collect spatial and discrete environmental data	35
MSS402023	Apply Just in Time procedures	30