Risk-based Inspection - Purposes

Purposes

The purposes of RBI include:

  1. To improve risk management results.
  2. To provide a holistic, interdependent approach for understanding and managing risks.
  3. To move away from time based inspection often governed by minimum compliance with rules, regulations and standards for inspection.
  4. To apply a strategy of doing what is needed for safeguarding integrity and improving reliability and availability of the asset by planning and executing those inspections that are needed.
  5. To provide economic benefits such as fewer inspections, fewer or shorter shutdowns and longer run length.
  6. To safeguard integrity.
  7. To reduce the risk of failure.
  8. To Increase plant availability and reduce unplanned outages.
  9. To Reduce unnecessary inspection and maintenance costs without compromising safety or reliability.
  10. To provide a flexible technique able to continuously improve and adopt to changing risk environment.
  11. To ensure Inspection techniques and methods are clearly defined based on thorough understanding of potential failure modes

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