Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• Analyze the fundamental principles and objectives of Risk-Based Inspection and explain its relationship with asset integrity and inspection management during the course.
• Identify critical equipment, systems, and components requiring risk-based inspection assessment according to their operational importance and potential failure consequences.
• Evaluate applicable degradation and damage mechanisms based on materials, process conditions, equipment design, operating history, and environmental exposure.
• Assess probability of failure using structured approaches that consider degradation mechanisms, equipment condition, inspection history, and failure potential.
• Evaluate consequences of failure by considering safety, environmental, operational, production, financial, and asset-related impacts.
• Develop risk profiles and prioritize equipment according to relative risk levels and asset criticality.
• Apply risk-based principles to select appropriate inspection methods, inspection locations, examination coverage, and inspection frequencies.
• Evaluate inspection effectiveness and determine how inspection results can influence risk levels and future inspection requirements.
• Develop practical inspection strategies that align inspection resources with identified risks and organizational asset integrity priorities.
• Improve RBI decision-making by integrating inspection findings, operational changes, degradation data, and equipment history into risk assessments.
• Strengthen coordination between inspection, engineering, maintenance, operations, reliability, and asset integrity teams through structured RBI processes.
• Develop a practical Risk-Based Inspection program and implementation plan for a selected industrial asset by the end of the course.

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Learning Outcomes

• Explain the principles, objectives, scope, and key components of Risk-Based Inspection.
• Identify critical assets and determine the equipment boundaries and systems requiring RBI assessment.
• Identify relevant degradation and damage mechanisms affecting industrial equipment and components.
• Evaluate the relationship between materials, process conditions, operating history, equipment design, and potential degradation.
• Assess probability of failure using appropriate technical and historical information.
• Evaluate potential consequences of equipment failure from safety, environmental, operational, production, and financial perspectives.
• Develop qualitative or semi-quantitative risk profiles and rank equipment according to relative risk.
• Select appropriate inspection methods and examination techniques based on identified damage mechanisms and risk levels.
• Determine inspection locations, examination coverage, and inspection priorities using risk-based principles.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of previous inspections and use inspection results to refine future inspection strategies.
• Integrate RBI findings with asset integrity, reliability, maintenance, engineering, and operational management processes.
• Develop a practical RBI implementation plan for a selected industrial asset, including risk assessment, inspection strategy, priorities, responsibilities, and review requirements.

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