Qualification details
Title
New Zealand Certificate in Agriculture (Vehicles, Machinery and Infrastructure)
(Level 3)
Version
1
Qualification type
Certificate
Level
3
Credits
45
NZSCED
050112
Agriculture, Environmental and Related Studies > Agriculture >
General Land Skills
Qualification developer
Primary ITO
Next review
December 2018
Approval date
November 2013
Strategic purpose statement
The purpose of this qualification is to provide rural workplaces
with individuals who have the ability to safely carry out a range of
activities for the efficient operation of a rural workplace, including
the use and maintenance of workplace vehicles, machinery, and
infrastructure.
Rural workplaces will benefit by having skilled staff who will be
able to maintain and improve production through safe and
efficient workplace practices.
Learners will benefit by having a qualification within a training
pathway that recognises progression through the industry, as
well as increased skills and knowledge acquisition to enable
improved job performance.
This qualification is for learners from a wide range of rural
workplaces, who want to further develop their skills and abilities
across a range of non-specialised competencies, in order to
contribute to the safe and efficient operation of a rural workplace.
Graduates will be capable of working under limited supervision.
Outcome Statement
Graduate profile
Education pathway
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Graduates of the qualification will be able:

identify and assist with the management of workplace
hazards

carry out a range of activities related to the use and/or
maintenance of workplace vehicles, machinery and
infrastructure.
This qualification may build on the National Certificate of
Educational Achievement (Level 2) with Primary Industry
Vocational Pathway endorsement and may lead on to the New
Zealand Certificate in Agriculture (Level 4) with strands in Arable
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Farming, Dairy Farming, and Livestock Farming [Ref: 2212].
Graduates may also wish to undertake one or more of the other
level three qualifications appropriate to a specific agriculture
sector.
Employment pathway
Graduates of this qualification are likely to be employed as a
general hand, junior shepherd, farm assistant, or in other similar
roles in rural based workplaces.
Qualification specifications
Qualification award
This qualification may be awarded by the Primary ITO as the
qualification developer and the industry training organisation
arranging training leading to the qualification under section 5
of the Industry Training Act 1992.
This qualification may also be awarded by an education
organisation accredited under section 250 of the Education
Act 1989 to deliver an approved programme leading to this
qualification.
The formal document certifying the award of this qualification
will display the NZQF logo and may also include the name
and/or logo of the awarding education organisation.
Evidence requirements for managing
consistency
All education organisations offering programmes leading to
the qualification must engage with arrangements for
managing consistency, including covering actual and
reasonable related costs.
Each education organisation is responsible for deciding what
specific evidence it will provide to demonstrate how well its
graduates meet the graduate profile outcomes of the
qualification.
Evidence of the following must be provided:
• Student feedback on course delivery and qualification
achievement, their perception of the value of the training,
and suggestions for improvements
• Feedback from employers on the level of skills, knowledge
and behaviour demonstrated by graduates of the
qualification
• Evidence of effective internal quality assurance systems
• Portfolios of work and/or assessment samples
demonstrating the range of student performance within a
programme
TEOs can also provide any other relevant evidence that
supports the consistency review.
Credit transfer and recognition of
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Education organisations must have policies and procedures
in place for managing credit transfer, and assessing
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prior learning arrangements
recognition of prior learning and recognition of current
competency. These policies and procedures, and
information about associated fees, must be available to the
candidate prior to enrolment.
To facilitate credit transfer, education organisations must
clearly demonstrate the equivalency or comparability
between each of the outcomes in the graduate profile, and
the assessment components of their programmes.
Minimum standard of achievement
and standards for grade
endorsements
The minimum standard of achievement required for award of
the qualification will be the achievement of all graduate
outcomes in the graduate profile through successful
completion of an NZQA approved programme.
Entry requirements (including
prerequisites to meet regulatory body
or legislative requirements)
There are no mandatory prerequisites to meet regulatory
body, or legislative requirements for this qualification.
Qualification conditions
Overarching conditions relating to the qualification
Conditions for programme
structure
Conditions for programme
context
Some of the standards recommended in the qualification have a prerequisite relationship.

Standards 24555 and 19053 must be completed before standards
19054 and 19055.

Standards 24556 and 24553 must be completed before standards
24558, 24560 , and 24562.

Standards 24557 and 24554 must be completed before standards
24559, 24561 and 24563.

Standard 19044 must be completed before standards 24538 and
24552.

Standards 19044, 24538 and 24552 must be completed before
standard 27604.
This qualification is intended to recognise new skills, and achievement
of the outcomes should be on the basis of new learning rather than
skills that have been acquired through specialised programmes at the
same level.
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Other conditions
Compliance with workplace health and safety requirements and
sustainable practices applies across all outcomes.
Assessment should include activities from each of the following
categories, appropriate to the learning situation.
Categories include:

vehicles: : tractors, quad bikes, motorcycles, 4WD, light utility
vehicles (LUVs)

machinery: examples include: chainsaws, powered orchard
machinery, agrichemical application equipment

infrastructure examples include:fencing,plant/crop supports,
tracks, water supply systems.
Specific conditions relating to the Graduate profile
Qualification outcomes
Indicative
Credits
Conditions
1
Identify and assist with the
management of workplace
hazards
5
Programmes may include the
following unit standard:
Carry out a range of activities
related to the use and/or
maintenance of workplace
vehicles, machinery and
infrastructure
40
2

23542
Programmes must include the use
and/or maintenance of the following;

Vehicles

Machinery

Infrastructure
To meet the requirements of the
vehicle category, learners must be
assessed in at least one vehicle type
appropriate to their situation.
Learners being assessed in quad
bikes, tractors, LUVs or motorcycles,
may only be assessed using unit
standards.
Learners must choose at least one
of the unit standards listed under the
vehicle type as appropriate to their
situation.
For the listed vehicle types, the
appropriate unit standard(s) are:
Quad bikes:
 24561
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
24563

24559
Tractors:
 24538

27604

19061
LUVs:
 24560

24562

24558
Motorcycles:
 19055

19054
Transition information
Replacement information
This qualification replaced the National Certificate in Agriculture (General
Skills) [Ref: 1468].
Trainees currently enrolled in programmes leading to the replaced qualification may either complete the
requirements by 31 December 2017 or transfer their results to this replacement qualification.
The last date for entry into programmes leading to the replaced qualification is 31 December 2016. The
last date for award of the replaced qualification is 31 December 2017 at which time the qualification will
be designated as discontinued.
It is the intention of Primary ITO that no existing trainee should be disadvantaged by these transition
arrangements. Any person who considers they have been disadvantaged may appeal to the Primary ITO.
Republication information
Version 1 of this qualification was republished in February 2015 to update the Evidence requirements for
managing consistency.
Version 1 of this qualification was republished in May 2015 to extend the next review date to 2019. The
last date for entry into programmes leading to the replaced qualification was extended to 31 December
2016 and the last date for award of the replaced qualification was extended to 31 December 2017.
Version 1 of this qualification was republished in February 2016 to clarify the unit standard conditions for
outcome 2 and to add 19061 to the Tractor vehicle type.
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