Maintenance ManagementRisk Based Inspection Planning
Inspecting everything on a fixed interval spends most of the budget on equipment that will not fail and still misses the item that does. Risk based inspection redistributes that effort. This course covers the method. Delegates work through equipment screening and the identification of damage mechanisms by service, likelihood assessment from degradation rate and inspection history, and consequence assessment across safety, environmental and production loss. Risk ranking and the inspection plan that follows are built rather than described. Inspection effectiveness is covered, since a technique that cannot detect the mechanism does not reduce risk. The course closes on reassessment after inspection and on defending the approach to a regulator or insurer.
Course objectives
- Screen equipment and identify damage mechanisms by service
- Assess likelihood from degradation rate and inspection history
- Assess consequence across safety, environmental and production loss
- Rank risk and build an inspection plan from it
- Judge inspection effectiveness against the mechanism present
- Reassess risk using inspection results
- Defend the approach to a regulator or insurer
Who should attend
- Inspection and integrity engineers
- Maintenance and reliability engineers
- Process engineers with equipment responsibility
- Asset managers planning inspection spend
- Regulators and insurers reviewing inspection regimes
Course outline
- 01Fixed intervals and misplaced effort
- 02Equipment screening
- 03Damage mechanisms by service
- 04Likelihood assessment
- 05Consequence assessment
- 06Risk ranking
- 07Inspection effectiveness and technique selection
- 08Reassessment and defending the approach
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 to 16 October 2026 | Cape Town, South Africa | Classroom | R14,950 per delegate | Register Now |
| 23 to 25 December 2026 | Maseru, Lesotho | Classroom | R14,950 per delegate | Register Now |
| 28 to 30 December 2026 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Classroom | R14,950 per delegate | Register Now |
| 1 to 3 March 2027 | Online | Online | R6,500 per delegate | Register Now |
| 24 to 26 March 2027 | Harare, Zimbabwe | Classroom | USD 995 per delegate | Register Now |