PPMQAS420 Co-ordinate in-process quality assurance

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for PPMQAS420 ended on 8 February 2022 — 4 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 10 February 2023 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
PPM — Pulp & Paper Manufacturing Industry Training Package
Currency period ends
8 February 2022
Latest release
Release 1 · 6 May 2016
Supersedes
FPPQAS420A
Superseded by
PPMQAS301 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. PPMQAS420Superseded — not equivalentCo-ordinate in-process quality assurance
  2. not equivalent
  3. PPMQAS301CurrentMonitor in-process quality assurance

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.

  • FPPQAS420APPMQAS420equivalent5 May 2016

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

  • PPMQAS420PPMQAS301not equivalent9 February 2022

    Changes to unit title, elements, performance criteria, foundation skills, performance evidence and knowledge evidence. Assessment conditions updated

Is PPMQAS420 on your scope?

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Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

Where PPMQAS420 is used

training.gov.au lists PPMQAS420 inside 4 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for PPMQAS420 in that product.

Products no longer current 4 listed

The register still records PPMQAS420 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypePPMQAS420 is
PPM30116Certificate III in Pulping OperationsQualificationelective
PPM30216Certificate III in Papermaking OperationsQualificationelective
PPM40116Certificate IV in Pulping OperationsQualificationcore
PPM40216Certificate IV in Papermaking OperationsQualificationcore

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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