RIMAP Consortium
Det Norske Veritas AS (DNV) ExxonMobil Chemical Ltd. (Exxon)
Bureau Veritas (BV) Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW)
Staatliche Materialprüfungsanstalt (MPA) Siemens AG (Siemens)
VTT Industrial Systems (VTT) Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC)
TÜV Industrie Service, TÜV SÜD Group Electricity Supply Board (ESB)
TNO Industrial Technology (TNO) Corus Ltd.
yARA Sluiskil B.V. (Norsk Hydro) The Dow Chemical Company N.V. (DOW)
Mitsui Babcock Energy Ltd. (MBEL) Solvay S.A.
This document may not be copied, reproduced, or modified in whole or in part for any purpose without written
permission from the RIMAP Consortium. In addition, to such written permission to copy, acknowledgement of the
authors of the document and all applicable portions of the copyright notice must be clearly referenced.
The background for the RIMAP project is that current practice to inspection and maintenance
planning for most industries is based on tradition and prescriptive rules, rather than being an
optimized process where risk measures for safety and economy are integrated. New
technology for taking risk based decisions is emerging in a broad range of sectors, and they
have proven to be a very efficient tool. There is a great need to define the technical content,
links to local legislation and to integrate this approach with the day-to-day operation of the
plants.
The work in the RIMAP RTD project has been organised as follows:
• WP1: Current practice within the involved industries.
• WP2: Development of a generic RBIM method, based on a multi-criteria decision
process.
• WP3: Development of detailed risk assessment methods, damage models for
different industry sectors, the use of inspection data.
• WP4: Development of RIMAP application workbooks: guidelines for development of
Risk Based Inspection and Maintenance plans.
• WP5: Validation of the RIMAP methodology.
D4.x
WP 5 RIMAP Validation/Benchmarking
The RIMAP DEMO project consists of four demonstration cases, one for each of the involved
industry sectors: petrochemical, power, steel, and chemical industry. The techniques can
easily be extended to other industry sectors.
The RIMAP TN accompanies the RTD and DEMO projects by disseminating the information,
and results of the RTD and DEMO part to a wider community of companies that review
results and generate an overall industry acceptance.
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The RIMAP project would like to acknowledge the financial support by the European Commission for the "GROWTH
Programme, Research Project RIMAP Risk Based Inspection and Maintenance Procedures for European Industry "; Contract
Number G1RD-CT-2001-03008. Without this support it would not have been possible to complete this work.
GROWTH Project G1RD-CT-2001-03008 “RIMAP”
Document title: Terminology list
Document number: 2-21-F-2004-01-1
Table of contents
1. INTRODUCTION ..............................................................................................................4
2. ABBREVIATIONS............................................................................................................4
3. GLOSSARY .....................................................................................................................4
4. REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................24
List of tables
TABLE 1 ABBREVIATIONS ...........................................................................................................4
1. Introduction
The current document contains a list of terminology to be used in the RIMAP project. Most of
terms have been taken from international standards. The standards are given in the
reference list.
NOTE: where several definitions are given, the first one is used in RIMAP.
2. Abbreviations
ALARP As Low As Reasonably Practicable PLL Potential Loss of Life
API American Petroleum Institute POD Probability of Detection
ASME American Society for Mechanical Engineers PoF Probability of Failure
ASNT American Society for Non-destructive Testing P&ID Process and Instrumentation Diagram
CoF Consequence of Failure P&UD Piping and Utilities Diagram
Det Norske Veritas RAM Reliability, Availability, Maintainability
DNV
Analysis
ESD(V) Emergency Shut Down (Valve) RBI Risk Based Inspection
FMEA Failure Modes and Effects Analysis RII Risk Informed Inspection
FAR Fatal Accident Rate RCM Reliability Centred Maintenance
FMECA Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis SMTS Specified Minimum Tensile Stress
GVI General Visual Inspection SMYS Specified Minimum Yield Stress
MAOP Maximum Allowable Operating Pressure WTM Wall Thickness Measurement
PFD Process Flow Diagram UFD Utilities Flow Diagram
Table 1 Abbreviations
3. Glossary
A
Acceptance Criteria for Risk – Criteria that are used to express a risk level that is
considered acceptable for the activity in question, limited to the high level expressions
of risk. See also Risk Acceptance and Risk Criteria.
(Ref. NORSOK Z-013)
Accidental Event – Event or chain of events that may cause loss of life, health, or damage
to environment or assets.
(Ref. NORSOK Z-013)
Accreditation – Procedure by which an authoritative body gives formal recognition that a
body is competent to carry out specific tasks.
(Ref. ISO/TC 11/SC)
Acutely Toxic Chemicals – Chemicals that can cause severe short- and long-term health
effects after a single, brief exposure (short duration). These chemicals (when ingested,
inhaled, or absorbed through the skin) can cause damage to living tissue, impairment
of the central nervous system, severe illness, or, in extreme cases, death.
(Ref. API580)
Affected Area – Represents the amount of surface area that experiences an effect (toxic
dose, thermal radiation, explosion overpressure, etc.) greater than a pre-defined
limiting value
Associated document – A document that must be used with the Code or Standard to
demonstrate compliance with an international standard.
(Ref. ISO/TC 11/SC)
As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) principle – The ALARP principle expresses
that the risk level is reduced - through a documented and systematic process - so far
that no further cost effective measure may be identified.
(Ref. NORSOK Z-013)
Two risk levels are defined to apply the ALARP-principle:
Intolerable risk level boundary
Negligible risk level boundary
In the intolerable risk region, risk reduction measures shall be incorporated. In the
ALARP region, risk reduction measures should be incorporated if the improvements
gained are reasonable compared to the costs involved.
Asset – Item or facility owned, leased or contracted by the company used in pursuit of its
corporate objectives
Asset Register – a record of items, including information such as constructional and
technical details about each. This may be combined with an inventory. List of all the
plant, equipment and buildings owned or used by the organisation and which require
maintenance of any sort.
Availability – The ability of an item to be in a state to perform a required function under
given conditions at a given instant of time or over a given time interval, assuming that
the required external resources are provided.
(IEC 60050-191, ISO 14224, DRAFT prEN 13306)
Average Individual Risk (AIR) – The average individual risk is usually estimated from
historical data as:
AIR = Number of fatalities per year/ Number of people at risk.
Average Rate of Death – The average number of fatalities from all incidents that might be
expected per unit time
C
Capital Cost/CAPital EXpenditures – Capital cost shall be calculated by adding the
following cost elements: Equipment purchase cost, Installation cost, Commissioning
cost, Insurance spares cost, Reinvestment cost. (Where there is a deviation between
when the investments will be made and the base year for the evaluation, capital cost
shall be discounted back to the base year.)
(NORSOK O-CR-001)
D
Degradation – An irreversible process in the characteristic of an item with either time or use.
NOTE 1: Degradation may lead to failure.
NOTE 2: Degradation is often referred to as wear-out, damage, or deterioration.
(Ref. DRAFT prEN 13306)
E
Environment – the area outside or inside a facility’s jurisdiction that would require
substantial costs to remediate in the event of contamination. It can include groundwater
tables that pass through the bounds of the facility and would allow contamination of
water external to the facility.
Environmental Consequence – The long or short term effects of an event on the
environment.
Equipment – An individual item that is part of a system. Examples include pressure vessels,
relief devices, piping, boilers, paper machines and pumps.
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The current definition is too narrow. The definition should include other types of equipment.
Equipment under control (EUC) – Equipment, machinery, apparatus or plant used for
manufacturing, process, transportation, medical or other activities.
NOTE: The EUC control system is separate and distinct from the EUC.
(Ref. IEC 61508-4)
Escape – The movement of employees or members of the public from a hazardous area to a
safe location.
Evacuation – Evacuation is the planned method of leaving the installation in an emergency.
Event – Occurrence of a particular set of circumstances.
NOTE 1: The event may be certain or uncertain.
NOTE 2: The event can be singular or multiple.
NOTE 3: The probability associated with the event can be estimated for a given period
of time.
(Ref. ISO N33)
Event Tree – Visually depict the possible chain of events that lead to the probability of
flammable outcomes; used to show how various individual event probabilities should
be combined to calculate the probability for the chain of events.
Event Tree Analysis – A technique which describes the possible range and sequence of the
outcomes which may arise from an initiating event.
Explosion – Occurs under certain conditions when a flame front travels very quickly.
External Event – Events resulting from forces of nature, acts of God or sabotage, or such
events as neighbouring fires or explosions, neighbouring hazardous material releases,
electrical power failures, tornadoes, earthquakes, and intrusions of external
transportation vehicles, such as aircraft, ships, trains, trucks, or automobiles. External
events are usually beyond the direct or indirect control of persons employed at or by
the facility.
(Ref. API580)
F
Facility – Production plant or equipment; can be applied to units within larger plant.
Failure – The termination of the ability of an item to perform a required function.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191, ISO 14224, DRAFT prEN 13306)
The concept includes: Complete failure of the item, Failure of part of the item for
corrective action, Failure discovered during inspection or testing, or preventive
maintenance, that requires repair. Failure of safety devices or control/monitoring
devices that necessitates shutdown, or causes reduction of the items capability below
specified limits.
The following outages are not considered as failures: Downtime due to preventive or
planned maintenance, shutdown of the item due to external conditions, or where no
physical failure condition of the item is revealed.
Failure Finding – entails checking a hidden function (at regular intervals) to find out whether
it has failed.
Failure Mechanism – Physical, chemical or other processes which lead or have lead to
failure.
(Ref. DRAFT prEN 13306)
Failure Mode – The observed manner of failure.
(Ref. ISO 14224 , API580)
The effect by which a failure is observed on the failed item/system. The failure mode
describes the loss of required function(s) that result from failures.
(Ref. NORSOK Z-016)
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) – A qualitative method of reliability analysis
which involves the study of the failure modes which can exist in every component part
of the plant and the required function of the plant.
Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) – A qualitative method of
reliability analysis which involves a failure modes and effects analysis together with a
consideration of the probability of failure modes, their occurrence and of the ranking of
effects and the seriousness of the failures.
Failure on Demand Probability – The probability of failure of an item per demand. Demand
is a situation where the item is required in order to initiate and complete a typical
operation (e.g. opening of a valve when required).
Failure Rate – Number of failures of an item in a given time interval divided by the time
interval.
NOTE 1: This value is an approximation.
NOTE 2: In some cases unit of time can be replaced by units of use.
(Ref. DRAFT prEN 13306)
The limit, if this exists, of the ratio of the conditional probability that the instant of time,
T, of a failure of an item falls within a given time interval, (t, t + ∆t) and the length of this
interval, ∆t, when ∆t tends to zero, given that the item is in an up state at the beginning
of the time interval.
NOTE: In this definition T may also denote the time to failure or the time to fist failure,
as the case may be.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191)
Fatal Accident Rate (FAR) – Fatal accident rate (FAR) is the number of fatalities per 108
exposed hours. (Roughly 1000 employee working lifetimes)
The FAR measure was developed to describe onshore occupational risks, which only
apply during working hours. Hence, in onshore studies, ‘exposed hours’ is taken to
mean ‘hours at work’, and the onshore FAR is defined as: Onshore
FAR = Number of fatalities · 108 / Person hours at work.
In offshore studies, ‘exposed hours’ are usually taken to be `hours spent offshore', and
the FAR is defined as: Offshore
FAR = Number of fatalities · 108 / Person hours offshore.
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) – An analysis to determine which failure modes of the subitems
or external events, or combinations thereof, may result in a stated failure mode of the
item presented in the form of a fault tree.(Ref. IEC 60050-191)
Fireball – occurs when a large quantity of fuel ignites after it has undergone only limited
mixing with the surrounding air.
Fitness-for-Service Assessment – A methodology whereby degradation or
flaws/imperfections contained within a component or equipment item are assessed in
order to determine acceptability for continued service.
Flammable Effect – the physical behaviour of the hazardous material that is released. See
Safe Dispersion, Jet Flame, Explosion, Flash Fire, Fireball, and Pool Fire.
Flash Fire – occurs when a cloud of material burns under conditions that do not generate
significant overpressure.
Frequency – a measure of probability expressed as the number of occurrences of an event
in a given time. See also Probability.
H
Harm – Physical injury or damage to the health of people, or damage to property or the
environment.
(Ref. ISO/IEC Guideline 51)
Hazard – Potential source of harm.
(Ref. ISO/IEC Guideline 51)
A physical condition or a release of a hazardous material that could result from
component failure and result in human injury or death, loss or damage, or
environmental degradation. Hazard is the source of harm. Components that are used
to transport, store, or process a hazardous material can be a source of hazard. Human
error and external events may also create a hazard.
(Ref. API580)
Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) Study – a HAZOP study is a form of failure modes and
effects analysis. HAZOP studies, which were originally developed for the process
industry, use systematic techniques to identify hazards and operability issues
throughout an entire facility. It is particularly useful in identifying unforeseen hazards
designed into facilities due to lack of information, or introduced into existing facilities
due to changes in process conditions or operating procedures. The basic objectives of
the techniques are:
I
Impairment – The term impairment is used when assessing the site or installations safety
functions’ capability to survive an accident. For example, an escape route can be
impaired, if the radiation level exceeds a certain value.
Individual Risk (IR) – Individual risk is the frequency (usually per year) at which a single
individual is expected to suffer a given level of harm (usually death) due to specific
hazards.
Individual Risk Measures – consider the risk to an individual who might be located at any
point in the effect zones of incidents
Inspection – Check or conformity by measuring, observing, testing or gauging the relevant
characteristics of an item.
NOTE: Generally inspection is carried out on the item itself without dismantling.
(Ref. DRAFT prEN 13306)
Inspection Effectiveness – A description of the ability of the inspection method to detect the
degradation inspected for.
Inspection Methods – the means by which inspection is carried out, covering the technique
and a description of its application.
Inspection Programme – Detail of inspection activity giving the precise location, type and
timing for each individual inspection action that is planned.
Inspection Techniques – A combination of inspection method and the means by which it is
to be applied, concerning surface and equipment preparation, execution of inspection
with a given method, and area of coverage.
Instantaneous Release – one that occurs so rapidly that the fluid disperses as a single large
cloud or pool
Intangible Assets – assets for which the value, though real, cannot readily be measured
and for which a company frequently incurs costs.
Inventory – the upper limit of the amount of fluid that can be released from an equipment
item. (The term is frequently used in RBI.)
Inventory Group – the inventory of attached equipment that can realistically contribute fluid
mass to a leaking equipment item.
Item – Any part component, device, subsystem, functional unit, equipment or system that
can be individually considered.
NOTE: A number of items e.g. a population of items, or a sample, may itself be
considered as an item.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191, ISO 14224, DRAFT prEN 13306)
J
Jet Flame – results when a high-momentum gas, liquid, or two-phase release is ignited.
L
Life Cycle Cost (LCC) – Cumulative cost of a product over its life cycle.
(Ref. IEC 60300-3-3)
All of the costs generated during the life cycle of an item.
NOTE: For a user or an owner, the total life cycle cost may include costs of
acquisition, operations maintenance and disposal.
(Ref. DRAFT prEN 13306)
Limit State – a mathematical description of the load on a component when failure is
expected to occur. This may include “safety factors”.
Limit State Design – limit state design identifies explicitly the different failure modes and
provides a specific design check to ensure that failure does not occur. This implies that
the component’s capacity is characterised by the actual capacity for each individual
failure mode (i.e. limit state) and that the design check is more directly related to the
actual failure mechanism.
Logistic delay – That accumulated time during which maintenance cannot be carried out
due to the necessity to acquire maintenance resources, excluding any administrative
delay.
NOTE: Logistic delays can be due to, for example, travelling to unattended
installations, pending arrival of spare parts, specialists, test equipment, information and
suitable environmental conditions.
(IEC 60050-191)
Loss – any negative consequence, financial or otherwise
Loss of Containment – occurs only when the pressure boundary is breached
Loss of Integrity – Loss of capacity to carry out the functions intended, e.g. structural
support.
M
Maintainability – The probability that a given active maintenance action, for an item under
given conditions of use can be carried out within a stated time interval, when the
maintenance is performed under stated conditions and using stated procedures and
resources.
NOTE: The term “maintainability” is also used to denote the maintainability
performance quantified by this probability.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191)
The ability of an item, under given conditions of use, to be retained in, or restored to, a
state in which it can perform a required function, when maintenance is performed
under given conditions and using stated procedures and resources.
NOTE: Maintainability is also used as a measure of maintainability performance.
(DRAFT prEN 13306)
Maintenance – The combination of all technical and administrative actions, including
supervision actions, intended to retain an item in, or restore it to, a state in which it
perform a required function.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191, ISO 14224, DRAFT prEN 13306)
Maintenance Time – The time interval during which a maintenance action is performed on
an item either manually or automatically, including technical delays and logistic delays.
NOTE: Maintenance may be carried out while the item is performing a required
function.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191)
Time during which a maintenance is carried out on an item either manually or
automatically, including technical and logistic delays.
NOTE: Maintenance may be carried out while the item is performing a required
function.
(Ref. DRAFT prEN 13306)
Maintenance Reference Plan (MRP) – plan detailing the scheduled maintenance activities
to be carried out by whom, with what frequency and the recording systems related to
that activity.
Management Systems Evaluation – an evaluation of all areas of a plant’s Process Safety
Management’s system that impact directly or indirectly on the mechanical integrity of
process equipment.
Manufacturer – An organisation or individual that performs or subcontracts all relevant
requirements in accordance with a code or standard and is responsible for compliance.
(Ref. ISO/TC 11/SC)
Mean Failure Rate – The mean of the instantaneous failure rate over a given time interval
(t1,t2).
(Ref. IEC 60050-191)
Mean Repair Rate – The mean of the instantaneous repair rate over a given time interval
(t1,t2).
(Ref. IEC 60050-191)
N
NDT – Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) is a procedure which covers the inspection and/or
testing of any material, component or assembly by means which do not affect its
ultimate serviceability. NDT methods are aimed to assess:
• Deficiencies in material and products.
• Determination of physical and geometric properties of materials and products.
• Structural behaviour of materials, products and installations.
Net Present Value, NPV – A method for assessing the value of investment proposals.
The net present value (NPV) is obtained by calculating the discounted value of the
future cash returns and subtracting the discounted value of the investments (or cash
outflows) required to produce the positive cash flow.
O
Operate to Failure – a maintenance option that entails items running until they break down
with no preventive maintenance work being undertaken and no attempt to detect failure
in advance.
Operating Cost/OPerational EXpenditures (OPEX) – Operating cost shall be calculated by
adding the following cost elements: Man-hour cost, spare parts consumption cost,
logistic support cost, and energy consumption cost. For costs that will be constant
through the lifetime, multiply the annual cost with a discount factor to get the cost over
the lifetime.
(Ref. NORSOK O-CR-001)
Operating Time – The time interval during which an item is in an operating state.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191, ISO 14224)
Time interval during which an item is performing its required function.
(Ref. DRAFT prEN 13306)
Operational Boundaries – both the normal operation and periods of non-routine operation
(startups, shutdowns, process upsets, etc.) of the system being studied.
Operations Reference Plan – the plan that demonstrates that all activities, resources,
threats and opportunities for improvement to a facility’s technical integrity have been
fully evaluated and the impact on cash flow quantified over the life cycle.
Operator – The organisation responsible for operation of an installation.
P
Physical Boundaries – all equipment items that make up the pressure envelope of the
system being studied
Planned Maintenance – the maintenance organised and carried out with forethought,
control and the use of records to a predetermined plan.
Plant Condition – the current condition of the facility being evaluated, based on general
appearance of the plant, effectiveness of the plant’s maintenance program and the
plant layout and construction.
Pool Fire – is caused when liquid pools of flammable materials ignite.
Potential Loss of Life (PLL) – Potential loss of life (PLL) is the predicted long-term average
number of fatalities in a given time period. "PLL per year" is another term for annual
fatality rate.
Preventive Maintenance – The maintenance carried out at predetermined intervals or
according to prescribed criteria and intended to reduce the probability of failure or the
degradation of the functioning of an item.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191, ISO 14224, DRAFT prEN 13306)
(Preventive maintenance actions include lubrication, cleaning, modification, sparing
and periodic inspection.)
Probability – Extent to which an event is likely to occur. The mathematical definition of
probability is “a real number in the scale 0 to 1 attached to a random event”. Probability
can be related to a long-run relative frequency of occurrence or to a degree of belief
that an event will occur. For a high degree of belief, the probability is near 1. Frequency
rather than probability may be used in describing risk. Degrees of belief about
probability can be chosen as classes or ranks like “Rare/unlikely/moderate/likely/almost
certain” or “incredible/improbable/remote/ occasional/probable/frequent”.
(Ref. API580)
Probability of Detection (PoD) – probability that a given damage in a component will be
detected using a given inspection method. PoD usually varies with the size or extent of
damage and inspection method.
Probability of Failure (PoF) – The probability that failure of a component will occur within a
defined time period.
Process monitoring – Monitoring of process conditions which may give rise to given failure
mechanisms. Examples are monitoring of dew point in a gas line, monitoring
temperature, sand monitoring.
Process Unit – A group of equipment arranged in a specific fashion to produce a product.
Production availability – The ratio of production to planned production, or any other
reference level, over a specified period of time.
NOTE 1: This measure is used in connection with analysis of delimited systems without
compensating elements such as substitution from other producers and downstream
buffer storage. Battery limits need to be defined in each case.
NOTE 2: The term injection availability may be used meaning the ratio of injection
volume to planned injection volume.
(Ref. NORSOK Z-016)
Q
Qualification – Proof of suitability of an individual, process, procedure, or service to fulfil
specified requirements.
(Ref. ISO/TC 11/SC)
Qualification can also denote individual competence.
R
Redundancy – In an item, the existence of more than one means for performing a required
function.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191, ISO 14224)
In an item, the existence of more than one means at a given instant of time for
performing a required function.
Active redundancy
Redundancy wherein all means for performing are intended to operate simultaneously.
Standby redundancy
That redundancy wherein a part of the means for performing a required function is
intended to operate, while the remaining part(s) of means are inoperating until needed.
(Ref. DRAFT prEN 13306)
Provision of additional equipment, usually a duplicate that is ready but normally out of
operation until needed
Regularity – term used to describe how a system is capable of meeting demand for
deliveries or performance. Production availability, deliverability or other appropriate
measures can be used to express regularity.
NOTE: The use of regularity terms must specify whether it represents a predicted or
historic regularity performance.
(Ref. NORSOK Z-016)
Regulation – a standard issued by a government body or regulatory agency with which an
Operating company must comply.
Release Duration – the length of time the release occurred.
Release Rate – rate expressed as units of mass of volume per unit of time of a substance.
Reliability – The probability that an item can perform a required function under given
conditions for a given time interval (t1, t2).
NOTE 1: It is generally assumed that the item is in a sate to perform this required
function at the beginning of the time interval.
NOTE 2: The term “reliability” is also used to denote the reliability performance
qualified by this probability.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191, ISO 14224, DRAFT prEN 13306)
Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) – Block diagram showing, for one or more functional
modes of a complex item, how failures of the sub-items represented by the blocks, or
combinations thereof, result of a failures of the item.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191)
Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) – a systematic approach for identifying effective
and efficient preventive maintenance tasks for equipment and items in accordance with
a specific set of procedures and for establishing intervals between maintenance tasks.
Remaining Life Assessment (RLA) – remaining life is the estimated time to failure for a
component. In this case, failure is usually defined as the non-compliance with the
design code for that component.
Repair – The part of corrective maintenance in which manual actions are performed on the
item.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191)
That part of corrective maintenance in which physical actions are carried out to restore
the required function of the item.
(Ref. DRAFT prEN 13306)
Repair Time – That part of active corrective maintenance time during which repair actions
are performed on an item.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191)
That part of active corrective maintenance time during which repair is carried out on an
item.
(Ref. DRAFT prEN 13306)
Residual Risk – the risk remaining after risk treatment.
(Ref. API580)
Risk – Combination of the probability of an event and its consequence.
NOTE 1: In some situations, risk is a deviation from the expected.
NOTE 2: See ISO/IEC Guide 51:1999 for issues related to safety.
(Ref. API580, ISO N33)
Risk Acceptance – A decision to accept a risk.
NOTE 1: The verb “to accept” is chosen to convey the idea that acceptance has its
basic dictionary meaning.
NOTE 2: Risk acceptance depends on risk criteria.
(Ref. API580, ISO N33)
Risk Analysis – Systematic use of available information to identify hazards and to estimate
the risk.
(ISO/IEC Guideline 51, ISO N33)
Systematic use of information to identify sources and to estimate the risk. Risk analysis
provides a basis for risk evaluation, risk treatment and risk acceptance. Information can
include historical data, theoretical analysis, informed opinions and concerns
stakeholders.
(Ref. API580)
Comment: In a risk analysis the probability and the consequence of an event may be
determined using engineering judgement and/or based on mathematical models, where
the result is expressed in dimensioned numerical terms. The terms qualitative and
quantitative are sometimes used to distinguish these methods. (See, e.g., API580)
Risk Assessment – Overall process comprising a risk analysis and a risk evaluation.
(Ref. API580, ISO/IEC Guideline 51, ISO N33)
Risk Avoidance – Decision not to become involved in, or action to withdraw from a risk
situation. The decision may be taken based on the result of risk evaluation.
(Ref. API580)
Risk Based Inspection – risk is used to prioritise inspection activities.
A risk assessment and management process that is focused on loss of containment of
pressurised equipment in processing facilities, due to material degradation. These risks
are managed primarily through equipment inspection.
(Ref. API580)
Risk Based Life Management – A concept used in the area of industrial plant asset
management which extends the idea of risk-based inspection (RBI) and maintenance
(RBMI) by introducing more of the overall life and life-cycle considerations into the
RBI/RBMI decisions, and by performing, where appropriate, e.g. for safety/mission
critical components and systems, more detailed life assessment.
Risk Based Management – the process of using risk assessment results (including
understanding uncertainties) to determine the “best” means of risk reduction
Risk Communication – exchange or sharing of information about risk between the decision-
maker and other stakeholders. The information may relate to the existence, nature,
form, probability, severity, acceptability, treatment or other aspects of risk.
(Ref. API580)
Risk Control – Actions implementing risk management decisions. Risk control may involve
monitoring, re-evaluation, and compliance with decisions.
(Ref. API580)
Risk Criteria – Terms of reference by which the significance of risk is assessed.
NOTE: Risk criteria may include associated cost and benefits, legal and statutory
requirements, socio-economic and environmental aspects, concerns of stakeholders,
priorities and other inputs to the assessment.
(Ref. API580, ISO N33)
Risk Evaluation – Procedure based on the risk analysis to determine whether the tolerable
risk has been achieved.
(Ref. ISO/IEC Guideline 51)
Process of comparing the estimated risk against given risk criteria to determine the
significance of the risk.
NOTE 1: Risk evaluation may be used to assist the acceptance of treatment decision.
NOTE 2: See ISO/IEC Guideline 51:1999 for risk evaluation in the safety context.
(Ref. API580, ISO N33)
S
Safe Dispersion – occurs when flammable fluid is released and then disperses without
ignition.
Safety – Freedom from unacceptable risk.
NOTE: Adapted from ISO/IEC Guide 2:1996 definition 2.5.
(Ref. ISO/IEC Guideline 51)
Safety Functions – Safety functions are key components necessary to allow evacuation in
major accidents.
Safety Integrity Level (SIL) – Discrete level (one out of a possible four) for specifying the
safety integrity requirements of the safety functions to be allocated to the
electric/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems, where safety
integrity level 4 has the highest level of safety integrity and safety integrity level 1 has
the lowest.
(Ref. IEC 61508-4)
Scenario – The set of events that can result in an undesirable outcome.
Scheduled Maintenance – the preventive maintenance carried out to a predetermined
interval of time, number of operations, mileage, etc.
3
Risk management also includes other activities, e.g. to define the scope of work and risk mitigation.
Segment4 – A number of components forming part of the same pressure system, consisting
of pipes, valves, vessels, etc, which can be automatically closed-in by emergency shut-
down valves. The segment defines the maximum volume of fluid or gas that can
released from that system in the event of a failure in any of the components. Some
segments contain both liquid and gas which may be considered differently regarding
consequence effects. Note that it is normal to assume that the ESD isolation functions
on demand, but this may not be applicable to all cases.
Severity class – A measure of how a failure effects on an item.
Severity Class Types: Critical failure: A failure which causes immediate and complete
loss of an item’s capability of providing its output. Degraded failure: A failure which is
not critical, but which prevents the item from providing its output within specifications.
Such a failure would usually, but not necessarily, be gradual or partial, and may
develop into a critical failure in time. Incipient failure: A failure which does not
immediately cause loss of an item’s capability of providing its output, but which, if not
attended to, could result in a critical or degraded failure in the near future. Unknown:
Failure severity was not recorded or could not be deduced.
Societal Risk Measures – consider the risk to groups of people that may be effected by
incidents.
Source – Thing or activity with a potential for consequence. Source in a safety context is a
hazard.
(Ref. API580)
Source Identification – Process to find, list, and characterise sources. In the safety area,
source identification is called hazard identification.
(Ref. API580)
Spurious Trip Rate – The Spurious Trip Rate is the frequency of false alarms which result in
system shutdown. The spurious signal can be caused by abnormal stimulation of
protection or control instrumentation or by component failure. The rate will generally be
quoted in spurious trips/year.
Stakeholder – any individual, group or organisation that may affect, be affected by, or
perceive itself to be affected by the risk.
(Ref. API580)
Sub-unit –Assembly of items that provides a specific function that is required for the
equipment unit within the main boundary to achieve its intended performance.
(Ref. ISO 14224)
System – a collection of equipment assembled for a specific function within a process unit.
T
Tag, Tagnumber – The unique identification of a part, component, pipe or equipment.
4
The term Segment is frequently used in the chemical/petrochemical industry.
Technical Module5 – the systematic methods used to assess the effect of specific failure
mechanisms on the probability of failure. It evaluates two categories of information:
degradation rate of the equipment items material of construction, resulting from its
operating environment; and the effectiveness of the facility’s inspection program to
identify and monitor the operative failure mechanisms prior to failure.
Testing – An activity carried out to determine by specific procedures that one or more
characteristics of a product, process or service meets one or more specified
requirements.
(Ref. ISO/TC 11/SC)
Time Between Failures – The time duration between two consecutive failures of a repaired
item.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191, DRAFT prEN 13306)
Time to Failure – Total time duration of operating time of an item, from the instant it is first
put in an up state, until failure or, from the instant of restoration until next failure.
(Ref. EC 60050-191, DRAFT prEN 13306)
Third party inspection body – An organisation independent from the manufacturer or user
that perform inspections on boilers and pressure vessels as provided for by Codes and
Standards.
(ISO/TC 11/SC)
Tolerable Risk – Risk which is accepted in a given context based on the current values of
society.
(Ref. ISO/IEC Guideline 51)
Trip –Unexpected shutdown of equipment. Trips are either spurious or real, i.e. either
caused by human or instrument failure, or actual process upsets. See Spurious Trip
Rate.
U
Unplanned Maintenance – the maintenance carried out to no pre-determined plan.
Up state – A state of an item characterised by the fact that it can perform a required function,
assuming that the external resources, if required, are provided.
NOTE: This state relates to availability performance.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191, DRAFT prEN 133060)
Up time – The time interval during which an item is in an up state.
(Ref. IEC 60050-191, DRAFT prEN 13306)
User – An organisation or individual using or operating the asset under consideration.
5
A concept used in API.
V
Vibration Monitoring Element – a sensor for monitoring equipment such as pumps and
compressors to detect developing problems before equipment failure occurs.
4. References
1. API RP 580 “Risk Based Inspection”, 4th draft.
2. IEC 60050(191) “International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV), Chapter 191:
Dependability and quality of service”, 1990.
3. IEC 61508-4 “Functional safety electrical/programmable electronic safety related systems
– Part 4: Definition and abbreviations of terms”, 1998.
4. IEC 60300-3-3 “Dependability management – Part 3: Application guide – Section 3: Life
cycle costing”, 1996.
5. ISO/IEC “Guide 51 – Safety aspects – Guidelines for their inclusion in standards”,
Second edition 1999.
6. ISO/TC 11/SC “Boilers and pressure vessels”. The National board of boiler and pressure
vessels.
7. ISO N 33 “The Third Working Draft of Risk Management Terminology”, 199-12-24.
8. ISO 14224 “Petroleum and natural gas industries – Collection and exchange of reliability
and maintenance data equipment” First edition, 1999-07-15.
9. DRAFT prEN 13306 “Maintenance terminology”, June 1998.
10. NORSOK O-CR-001 “Life cycle cost for systems and equipment”, Rev. 1, April 1996.
11. NORSOK Z-CR-008 “Criticality classification method”, Rev.1, May 1996.
12. NORSOK Z-013 “Risk and emergency preparedness analysis”. Rev. 1, March 1998.
13. NORSOK Z-016 “Regularity management & reliability technology”, Rev. 1, Dec. 1998.
14. MIL-STD-1629A “Military standard procedures for failure mode, effects and criticality
analysis” November 1980)
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