The invention discloses a method and a system for evaluating the safety of an oil storage tank bottom plate with a corrosion defect and belongs to the technical field of evaluation on in-service defective containers in petroleum and petrifaction industry. The method comprises the following steps of: determining parameters E, t, mu, K, Rho, L0, 1, Phi, sigma s, nF, FCA, t0, Z, R and theta 1; calculating parameters D, p, [sigma], Rz, beta 1 and Rsf; calculating N, NL, M0 and ML; and when the square of N/NL is less than or equal to 0.44, determining that the defect of a center plate can be accepted, and when the sum of the square of N/NL and the square of Mo/ML is less than or equal to 0.44, determining that the defect of an edge plate can be accepted. The invention provides the method and the system for evaluating the safety in order to deal with the condition that the corrosion depth of the oil storage tank bottom plate exceeds the defect standard specified as SY/T 5921-2000, and suggestions about safety running of an oil storage tank can be provided.