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Evaluation and Use of Risk Estimates in Dam Safety Decisionmaking
Risk evaluation criteria can serve a useful role in developing a business case for justifying dam safety risk-reduction measures for individual dams and for portfolios of dams. This paper discusses the limitations of simple threshold criteria and the use of estimates of the cost-effectiveness of risk-reduction measures to evaluate ALARP (as low as reasonably practicable) considerations, which play a role in assessing the owner's duty of care and due diligence. It also describes an emerging approach to using risk estimates to formulate and justify a dam safety improvement program and for strengthening ongoing dam safety management activities.
Evaluation and Use of Risk Estimates in Dam Safety Decisionmaking
Risk evaluation criteria can serve a useful role in developing a business case for justifying dam safety risk-reduction measures for individual dams and for portfolios of dams. This paper discusses the limitations of simple threshold criteria and the use of estimates of the cost-effectiveness of risk-reduction measures to evaluate ALARP (as low as reasonably practicable) considerations, which play a role in assessing the owner's duty of care and due diligence. It also describes an emerging approach to using risk estimates to formulate and justify a dam safety improvement program and for strengthening ongoing dam safety management activities.
Evaluation and Use of Risk Estimates in Dam Safety Decisionmaking
Bowles, David S. (author)
Ninth United Engineering Foundation Conference on Risk-Based Decisionmaking in Water Resources ; 2000 ; Santa Barbara, California, United States
2001-10-01
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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