Safety at bp
Here’s a snapshot of bp’s safety efforts – and how we’re building an enduring safety culture
At bp, safety comes first. We want to improve our safety performance and work toward our goal to eliminate fatalities, life-changing injuries and tier 1 process safety events.
Operating management system
Our operating management systema provides a single framework for our operations. It defines a consistent approach to managing our operational activities – helping us to improve performance in delivering safe, reliable and compliant operations.
Our Safety Leadership Principles
Our five Safety Leadership Principles are designed to guide behavior and ways of working across bp to drive a strong, consistent safety culture. They are:
- We genuinely care about each other
- We will not compromise our focus on safety
- We encourage and recognize the need to speak up
- We understand how work actually happens
- We learn why mistakes occur and respond supportively.
They are informed by human performance and support a culture of care by helping us understand how people interact with their working environment and may sometimes make mistakes related to safety. In 2024 we took further steps to help our people use and benefit from these principles, particularly to support their psychological safety.
Life-Saving Rules
We recognize the value of industry standardization and consistent rules to help improve safety performance, including IOGP’s Life-Saving Rules. We continued their roll out across bp in 2024 and also started measuring their effectiveness in businesses that had implemented them in 2023.
Footnotes:
a For recently acquired businesses, there is typically a transition period while bp’s operating standards, as set out in our operating management system, are integrated or aligned.
b At the time of publication, during an initial transition period for these acquired businesses – Archaea Energy, TravelCenters of America, Lightsource bp and bp bioenergy – safety reporting processes were still being integrated into bp’s safety reporting processes and as such, their safety performance data are not included in reported data for 2024.
c Tier 1 events are losses of primary containment from a process of greatest consequence, causing harm to a member of the workforce, damage to equipment from a fire or explosion, a community impact, or exceeding defined quantities (per API RP 754 tier 1 definitions). Tier 2 events are those of lesser consequence (per API RP 754 tier 2 definitions).