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Strategic report
BP Annual Report and Form 20-F 2013 41
Corporate responsibility
• Our operating management system (OMS) is a group-wide
framework designed to provide a basis for managing our operations
in a systematic way.
• We continue to make progress on all of the remaining
recommendations from BP’s internal investigation regarding the
Deepwater Horizon accident (the Bly Report).
• We are focusing on developing deeper, longer-term relationships
with selected contractors in our Upstream business.
Group safety performance
In 2013 BP reported six fatalities. These were four employees in the
terrorist attack at In Amenas, Algeria and two contractors in heavy goods
vehicle incidents, one in Brazil and one in South Africa. We deeply regret
the loss of these lives.
Personal safety performance
2013 2012 2011
Recordable injury frequency (group) –
incidents per 200,000
hours worked 0.31 0.35 0.36
Day away from work case frequencyb
(group) – incidents per 200,000
hours worked 0.070 0.076 0.090
b Incidents that resulted in an injury where a person is unable to work for a day (shift) or more.
Process safety performance
2013 2012 2011
Tier 1 process safety events 20 43 74
Loss of primary containment –
number of all incidentsc261 292 361
Loss of primary containment –
number of oil spillsd185 204 228
Number of oil spills to land and water 74 102 102
Volume of oil spilled (thousand litres) 724 801 556
Volume of oil unrecovered
(thousand litres) 261 320 281
c Does not include either small or non-hazardous releases.
d Number of spills greater than or equal to one barrel (159 litres, 42 US gallons).
We report tier 1 process safety events defined as the loss of primary
containment from a process of greatest consequence – causing harm to a
member of the workforce or costly damage to equipment, or exceeding
defined quantities. We use the American Petroleum Institute (API) RP-754
standard. Our loss of primary containment (LOPC) metric includes
unplanned or uncontrolled releases from a tank, vessel, pipe, rail car or
equipment used for containment or transfer of materials within our
operational boundary excluding non-hazardous releases such as water.
We seek to record all LOPCs regardless of the volume of the release and
report on losses over a severity threshold.
Managing safety
We are working to continuously improve safety and risk management
across BP. Three objectives guide our efforts:
• To promote deep capability and a safe operating culture across BP.
• To embed OMS as the way BP operates.
• To support self-verification and independent assurance that confirms our
conduct of operating.
Within BP, operating businesses are accountable for delivering safe,
compliant and reliable operations. They are supported in this by our safety
and operational risk (S&OR) function whose role is to:
• Set clear requirements.
• Maintain an independent view of operating risk.
• Provide deep technical support to the operating businesses.
• Intervene and escalate as appropriate to cause corrective action.
Governance
BP reviews risks at all levels of the organization. Each business segment
has a safety and operational risk committee, chaired by the business
head, to oversee the management of safety and risk in their respective
areas of the business. In addition, the group operations risk committee
(GORC) reviews safety and risk management across BP.
The board’s safety, ethics and environment assurance committee
(SEEAC) receives updates from the group chief executive and the head of
S&OR on management plans associated with the highest priority risks
as part of its update on GORC’s work. GORC also provides SEEAC
with updates on BP’s process and personal safety performance, and the
monitoring of major incidents and near misses across the group. See Our
management of risk on page 49.
We believe we have a positive role to play in shaping
the long-term future of energy.
Safety
We continue to promote deep capability and a safe operating
culture across BP.
Recordable injury frequency
(Workforce incidents per 200,000 hours worked)
International Association of Oil & Gas Producers benchmarka
American Petroleum Institute US benchmarka
a API and OGP 2013 data reports are not available until May 2014.
Employees 0.23 0.25 0.31 0.26 0.25
Contractors 0.43 0.84 0.41 0.43 0.36
0.2
0.6
0.4
0.8
1.0
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Fire safety training in Angola.
Loss of primary containment and tier 1 process safety events
(number of incidents)
Tier 1 process safety events
150
300
450
600
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
292 261
361
418
537