Course Description
Inspecting everything equally is a way of inspecting the wrong things thoroughly. Risk-based inspection allocates inspection effort by consequence and likelihood of failure, concentrating resources where failure matters and relaxing where it does not — and defensibly documenting why.
This course develops RBI capability. Participants learn the RBI concept and its standards, damage mechanisms and their identification, probability of failure assessment, consequence of failure modelling, risk ranking and matrices, inspection planning against risk, inspection effectiveness and its influence on risk, reassessment and dynamic RBI, and the integration of RBI with integrity operating windows and maintenance.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the RBI concept and applicable standards
- Identify damage mechanisms in process equipment
- Assess probability of failure
- Model consequence of failure
- Apply risk ranking and risk matrices
- Build inspection plans driven by risk
- Assess inspection effectiveness and its influence on risk
- Manage reassessment and integrate RBI with integrity operating windows
How the course is delivered
The course combines RBI methodology with assessment exercises on realistic process equipment: damage mechanism identification, probability and consequence assessment, and inspection plan construction.
The programme addresses RBI as an auditable engineering process that must satisfy regulators and insurers, not simply as a way to reduce inspection cost.
Designed for
This translates well for:
- Inspection and integrity engineers
- Maintenance and reliability engineers
- Process safety professionals
- Plant and asset managers
- Anyone planning inspection for pressure equipment
Daily programme
- Why risk-based inspection
- The RBI concept and standards
- Qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative approaches
- Data requirements and quality
- Damage mechanisms in process equipment
- Corrosion mechanisms
- Cracking mechanisms
- Mechanism identification and susceptibility
- Probability of failure assessment
- Damage factors
- Consequence of failure modelling
- Safety, environmental and business consequence
- Risk ranking and matrices
- Risk targets and tolerability
- Inspection planning against risk
- Inspection effectiveness
- Reassessment and revalidation
- Integrity operating windows
- Integration with maintenance and turnarounds
- RBI workshop and review
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
