API 579 Fitness-for-Service of Piping, Vessels and Tanks

Equipment comes out of inspection with a flaw and the question is always the same: run, repair or replace. Answering it by judgement is how plants either shut down work that was safe or keep running something that was not. This standard replaces the judgement with an assessment, and it is layered deliberately, from a conservative screening any competent engineer can run to a detailed analysis that needs a specialist. The week covers the common assessments in the order a plant meets them, works each on real geometry and real readings, and is honest about where a Level 1 result should send you upward rather than let you sign.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Choose the assessment level that suits the flaw and the data available.
• Run general and local metal loss assessments on real measurements.
• Assess pitting, blisters, laminations, weld misalignment and shell distortion.
• Carry out a crack like flaw assessment, and understand what it rests on.
• Set a remaining life and an inspection interval from the result.

Integrity, reliability and mechanical engineers, senior inspectors, plant engineers making run or repair decisions, and consultants supporting turnaround scopes.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• Completed assessments on your own equipment data.
• A decision record showing the basis of a run or repair call.
• A route for escalating an assessment when Level 1 fails.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.