Abstract: Recent developments in the safety management of large dams and in particular the use of risk assessment and associate management strategies has raised awareness of the importance for dam owners to manage their dams in a whole-of-business context.
Dam owners can range from large to small public or private organisations, or in some cases individuals. Each dam owner will have different governance and management arrangements, corporate objectives and operating environment, overall business drivers, financial capacity, technical capability and risk appetite. Larger dam owners may have a significant portfolio of dams, be well informed and have access to the internal and external technical skills necessary to take informed dam safety and management decisions whereas for many organisations the responsibilities and liabilities associated with the ownership of a dam may not be well understood. In some organisations the dam may not be critical to the business or it may even no longer have a function. However, irrespective of the nature of a business owning or with responsibility for a dam, there are fundamental principles which should be followed to ensure that an appropriate level of dam safety management is undertaken to support and protect not only that business but also the affected community and environment.
This paper outlines the need, purpose, objectives and fundamentals of a successful Dam Safety Management System together with examples of the implementation and benefits of such a system for dam owners from both technical and corporate governance perspective.

Key words: Australia, integrated dam safety management systems

摘要： 大坝安全管理最近的发展，特别是风险评估和相关管理策略的使用提高了大坝业主对在整个商业背景中管理其大坝的重要性的认识。
大坝业主的范围可以从大型涵盖到小型公共或私人组织，在某些情况下也有私人业主。每个大坝业主都有不同的监管和管理部署、公司目标和运营环境、利润指标、财务能力、技术能力和风险偏好。规模大一些的大坝业主可能拥有一系列重要的大坝，他们对信息充足的大坝安全和管理决策所需的内部和外部技术技能都非常清楚且能加以应用，但对于许多其他组织，其对与大坝所有权相关的责任和职责并没有充分的理解。在有些组织中，大坝对其业务来说或许并不关键，也可能大坝已不再发挥作用。但是，不管业务所有权的性质或大坝的责任如何，都应遵循一些基本的原则以保证采用了合理的大坝安全管理层次，不仅用于支持和保护其业务，还能支持和保护受影响的社区和环境。
文章概述了一个成功的大坝安全管理系统的需求、目的、目标和基础，并列举了几个系统实施的案例，从技术和公司管理的角度说明了业主能从中得到的益处。

关键词: 澳大利亚, 综合大坝安全管理系统