TAEASS403 Participate in assessment validation

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for TAEASS403 ended on 6 December 2022 — 3 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 8 December 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
TAE — Training and Education Training Package
Currency period ends
6 December 2022
Latest release
Release 2 · 10 March 2017 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
TAEASS403B
Superseded by
TAEASS413 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. TAEASS403Superseded — not equivalentParticipate in assessment validation
  2. not equivalent
  3. TAEASS413CurrentParticipate in assessment validation

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.

  • TAEASS403BTAEASS403not equivalent5 April 2016

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages. Addition of performance criteria.

  • TAEASS403TAEASS413not equivalent7 December 2022

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

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Where TAEASS403 is used

training.gov.au lists TAEASS403 inside 49 training products, 22 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for TAEASS403 in that product.

Current products 22 listed

CodeTraining productTypeTAEASS403 is
AVI50419Diploma of Aviation (Flight Instructor)Qualificationcore
CUA40320Certificate IV in Dance Teaching and ManagementQualificationelective
FBP40522Certificate IV in Pharmaceutical ManufacturingQualificationelective
HLT50221Diploma of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care ManagementQualificationelective
MEA60322Advanced Diploma of Aviation Non-Destructive TestingQualificationcore
PMA40116Certificate IV in Process Plant TechnologyQualificationelective
PMA50116Diploma of Process Plant TechnologyQualificationelective
PMA60116Advanced Diploma of Process Plant TechnologyQualificationelective
PMASS00015Workplace assessor, trainer, coachSkill setelective
PPM40121Certificate IV in Pulp and Paper OperationsQualificationelective
PUA40119Certificate IV in Public Safety (Emergency Communications Centre Operations)Qualificationelective
PUA40319Certificate IV in Public Safety (Firefighting Supervision)Qualificationelective
PUA41019Certificate IV in Public Safety (Leadership)Qualificationelective
PUA41120Certificate IV in Public Safety (Community Safety)Qualificationelective
PUA50919Diploma of Public Safety (Search and Rescue - Coordination)Qualificationelective
RGR40419Certificate IV in Greyhound Racing IndustryQualificationelective
RII40120Certificate IV in Surface Extraction OperationsQualificationelective
RII40320Certificate IV in Underground Metalliferous Mining OperationsQualificationelective
RII40520Certificate IV in Resource ProcessingQualificationelective
RII40920Certificate IV in Drilling OperationsQualificationelective
SIS40621Certificate IV in Outdoor LeadershipQualificationelective
SIS50421Diploma of Outdoor LeadershipQualificationelective

Products no longer current 27 listed

The register still records TAEASS403 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 productTypeTAEASS403 is
AHC41916Certificate IV in ArboricultureQualificationelective
FBP30117Certificate III in Food ProcessingQualificationelective
FBP30617Certificate III in Food Processing (Sales)Qualificationelective
FBP40518Certificate IV in Pharmaceutical ManufacturingQualificationelective
FWP40116Certificate IV in Forest OperationsQualificationelective
FWP40216Certificate IV in Timber ProcessingQualificationelective
MEA60318Advanced Diploma of Aviation Non-Destructive TestingQualificationcore
MSM41115Certificate IV in Recreational Vehicle and Accessories RetailingQualificationelective
PMB40116Certificate IV in Polymer TechnologyQualificationelective
PMC40116Certificate IV in Manufactured Mineral ProductsQualificationelective
Show the remaining 17 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeTAEASS403 is
PPM30116Certificate III in Pulping OperationsQualificationelective
PPM30216Certificate III in Papermaking OperationsQualificationelective
PPM40116Certificate IV in Pulping OperationsQualificationelective
PPM40216Certificate IV in Papermaking OperationsQualificationelective
PPM50116Diploma of Pulp and Paper Process ManagementQualificationelective
PUA41119Certificate IV in Public Safety (Community Safety)Qualificationelective
RII40115Certificate IV in Surface Extraction OperationsQualificationelective
RII40315Certificate IV in Metalliferous Mining Operations (Underground)Qualificationelective
RII40515Certificate IV in Resource ProcessingQualificationelective
RII40915Certificate IV in Drilling OperationsQualificationelective
RII41115Certificate IV in Drilling Oil & Gas (On shore)Qualificationelective
RII41215Certificate IV in Well Servicing OperationsQualificationelective
SIS40619Certificate IV in Outdoor LeadershipQualificationelective
SIS50419Diploma of Outdoor LeadershipQualificationelective
TAE40116Certificate IV in Training and AssessmentQualificationcore
TAESS00011Assessor Skill SetSkill setelective
TAESS00015Enterprise Trainer and Assessor Skill SetSkill setelective

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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