Risk-Based InspectionTechnique and Critical Success Factors in its Implementation to Improve Risk and Process Safety-Based Management Systems: A review study

Risk-based inspection is a powerful tool provided by the American Petroleum Institute in order to respond to the needs of the process industries. The main focus of this method is on inspection, integrity management, maintenance, as well as reduction of the probability of failure. The purpose of this study was to conduct the risk-based inspection technique and critical success factors in its implementation to improve risk and process safety based management systems.

In this review study, we first listed the keywords based on the research title including Critical Success Factors, risk assessment, process safety, corrosion management, inspection Plan, failure mechanism, Risk Based Inspection, Risk Based Maintenance, Risk-based Integrity Management, and Asset Integrity Management . Later, each term was searched specifically and without time limit in the internal and external databases of Science Direct, PubMed, Google Scholar, SID, Google Search, Magiran, Civilica, and Scopus.

A systematic review of various studies showed that critical success factors provided the necessary context for the implementation of a risk-based inspection process in the process industries and were essential factors for the effective implementation of the RBI method.

By analyzing the results of the studies we found  that identifying CSFs can improve the effective implementation of RBI in industries and guarantee the benefits mentioned for this method. Moreover, the engineering and accurate implementation of risk-based inspection method will lead to the best implementation of management systems based on the risk and process safety and its improvement.