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Workplace Verifiers

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What are Workplace Verifiers?

Workplace verifiers play a critical role in ensuring learners can consistently perform the practical tasks required in their apprenticeship. They observe real-world performance, confirm the learner meets organisational standards, and provide this evidence to the assessor.

Verifiers are effectively the assessor’s “eyes and ears” on the job, helping maintain integrity and confidence in the on-job assessment process.

Verifier’s Role

A verifier confirms that a learner can carry out specified tasks repeatedly, safely, and to workplace standards. Their observations form part of the evidence used in assessment.

The assessor’s role

Assessors review all evidence — including learner responses, workplace documentation, and verification — and make the final assessment decision.

Important points to remember

The learner should consistently perform specified tasks repeatedly in the workplace to organisational requirements.

The learner should be able to complete the activities without being prompted or guided.
As the verifier, you need to be confident that the learner can repeat the task without further supervision.

Key Points for Verifiers

What you need to be confident in before you verify a learner’s work.

The learner must consistently perform tasks to organisational and industry requirements.
Tasks must be completed independently, without prompting or guidance.
Verifiers must be confident that the learner can repeat the task without further supervision.

Trades Verifiers

Electrical, Scaffolding, Plumbing, Gasfitting, and Drainlaying apprenticeships require workplace verifiers to be registered with EarnLearn.

Who can become a Trades Verifier?

Your workplace must have apprentices who hold an EarnLearn Training Agreement. A verifier should:

Electrical or Industrial Measurement & Control

Trades Verifiers

Plumbing, Gasfitting & Drainlaying

Scaffolding

Register to become a Trades Verifier

What support can verifiers expect

Our Quality Assurance team are here to support registered verifiers.

We provide onboarding information to new verifiers such as access to our Verifier Guide and a link to an online verification module for registered verifiers.

We encourage verifiers to attend verifier forums as it’s a great way to stay up to date with changes in industry while meeting other verifiers.

Dates for our 2025 Verifier Forums can be found below (please note that the dates could be subject to change).

Apply to become a Verifier

To apply to become a verifier, please download and complete the Trades Verifier form.

Applications should be forwarded to qa@waiouru.earnlearn.ac.nz.