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Introduction
Swedenergy takes dam safety issues very seriously.
Our dam safety activities are continuously evolving alongside our work developing dam safety guidelines and application guidance – RIDAS. With our activities in the area – including education, support for development projects, seminars and information days – Swedenergy aims to encourage good dam safety in all companies.
RIDAS was first published in 1997. It was created partly in order to refine the dam safety recommendations and guidance that existed at the time, making them more generally applicable and more comprehensive. New editions were published in 2002, 2008 and 2012.
Due to special dam safety rules that were introduced in the 2014 Environmental Code, chapters 1 – 3 were revised in the 2016 edition of RIDAS. The revisions primarily concerned the classification of dam facilities and safety management systems.
With the edition RIDAS 2019, the thorough revision that was initiated by RIDAS 2016 was completed. Some chapters were added, there were clearer links to the underlying legal requirements, and there were more references to relevant standards.
This edition is the result of a review undertaken after the application guidance work was completed in 2021, also taking into account the 2022 edition of the Swedish guidelines for design flood determination for dams.
From now on, the publication is called RIDAS, without year in the document’s title. Revision month and year, which can be found on the cover page and in the header, denotes the edition.
Stockholm 25 April 2022
Åsa Pettersson
CEO