The Frequency of Release from Piping: a Case-Study to Compare Approaches Quantifying Organizational and Managerial Factors

The increasing public awareness about high risks associated with chemical and petrochemical installations determined a growing attention on the improvement of protective and preventing measures. To ensure higher levels of safety, designers and operators have focused their efforts to find innovative solutions combining safety and costs for safety. It has become crucial to manage risk through the use of best practices for inspection and maintenance planning. In order to achieve this aim, a useful tool, named “Inspection Manager”, has recently been developed by ANTEA. It includes all functionalities for a easier data management concerning plant’s inspection, furthermore the implementation of methods for the quantification of managerial and organizational factors gives it additional potentialities. This work has been focused on the comparison of two approaches for the quantification of organizational and managerial factors on the frequency of release from piping to be used to support risk-based decisions by means of the use of the “Inspection Manager” tool.