BP Baker Panel Report - Recommendations

RECOMMENDATION # 1 – PROCESS SAFETY LEADERSHIP
BP’s corporate management must provide effective leadership on and establish appropriate goals for process safety.

RECOMMENDATION #2 – INTEGRATED AND COMPREHENSIVE PROCESS SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
BP should establish and implement an integrated and comprehensive process safety
management system that systematically and continuously identifies, reduces, and manages process safety risks at its U.S. refineries.

RECOMMENDATION #3 – PROCESS SAFETY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE
BP should develop and implement a system to ensure that its executive management, its
refining line management above the refinery level, and all U.S. refining personnel, including managers, supervisors, workers, and contractors, possess an appropriate level of process safety knowledge and expertise.

RECOMMENDATION #4 – PROCESS SAFETY CULTURE
BP should involve the relevant stakeholders to develop a positive, trusting, and open
process safety culture within each U.S. refinery.

RECOMMENDATION #5 – CLEARLY DEFINED EXPECTATIONS AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR PROCESS SAFETY
BP should clearly define expectations and strengthen accountability for process safety performance at all levels in executive management and in the refining managerial and supervisory reporting line.

RECOMMENDATION #6 – SUPPORT FOR LINE MANAGEMENT
BP should provide more effective and better coordinated process safety support for the U.S. refining line organization.

RECOMMENDATION #7 – LEADING AND LAGGING PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR PROCESS SAFETY
BP should develop, implement, maintain, and periodically update an integrated set of
leading and lagging performance indicators for more effectively monitoring the process safety performance of the U.S. refineries

RECOMMENDATION #8 – PROCESS SAFETY AUDITING
BP should establish and implement an effective system to audit process safety performance at its U.S. refineries.

RECOMMENDATION #9 – BOARD MONITORING
BP’s Board should monitor the implementation of the recommendations of the Panel and the ongoing process safety performance of BP’s U.S. refineries. The Board should also report publicly on the progress of such implementation and on BP’s ongoing process safety performance.

RECOMMENDATION #10 – INDUSTRY LEADER
BP should use the lessons learned from the Texas City tragedy and from the Panel’s report to transform the company into a recognized industry leader in process safety management.