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API 580 - Risk Based Inspection (RBI)

API RP 580, Risk-Based Inspection, is a recommended practice developed and
managed by the American Petroleum Institute (API). This RP identifies the basic
elements for developing, implementing and maintaining a risk-based inspection (RBI) program. It is a generic document
on RBI that can be used as a measuring stick by which the quality of any and all RBI methods and work processes could
be evaluated to determine if they meet the level of quality prescribed in the RP.

The first edition of API RP 580 was published in May, 2002. The document is now an ANSI/API Standard, which was
balloted and approved using the ANSI consensus process for creating American National Standards. As such, it becomes
a "recognized and generally accepted good engineering practice (RAGAGEP)", for use by all companies in the oil and
chemical industry.

API RP 580 is supplemented by API RP 581, Risk-Based Inspection Technology.

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