API-580 Exam Dumps : API 580 - Risk Based Inspection

API 580 clearly states under Section 13.6:

“Emergency depressurizing and/or de-inventory should be achieved within a few minutes to reduce the risk from an explosion/fire. This method reduces the amount and rate of release.”

While other methods (such as substitution or containment) reduce hazard or consequence, emergency depressuring directly targets the rate and quantity of material released.

After planning is completed, API 580 Section 6.1 states:

“Once this portion of the RBI planning process has been completed the data and information required for collection should be identified.”

This confirms that the next step involves identifying the data needed for analysis, not directly jumping to failure modes or mitigation.

As stated in API 580 Section 7.3:

“The data quality has a direct relation to the relative accuracy of the RBI analysis. Although the data requirements are quite different for the various types of RBI analysis, quality of input data is equally important no matter what approach to RBI is selected.”

This highlights that data quality is critical across qualitative, semi-quantitative, and quantitative analyses.