Organization and competence
Having the right people with the right capability and experience in safety-critical roles is essential. This applies to contractors as well as to BP employees
Our organizational structure is designed to allow our operations to deliver their business objectives effectively, to ensure employees have a clear understanding of their role and accountabilities, and are competent to carry out their work. For example, the restructuring of our Upstream business brings professionals with similar expertise into the same line management structures worldwide, creating global teams that are able to share best practice and continuously improve standards, including those for safety and risk management.
Competency and safety-critical roles
Targeted programmes are reinforcing our values and building leadership capacity to embed our operating management system (OMS) and achieve consistently safe, compliant and reliable operations.
We are seeking to develop deeper technical expertise in-house in the critical disciplines of health, safety, engineering and operations. As part of this we have focused on bringing in expertise from other high-hazard environments with 29% of external hires into our safety and operational risk (S&OR) function in 2012 bringing experience of working in high-hazard environments.
We are also strengthening capability and consolidating our competency management programme. Our approach is being tested in a number of job categories, such as offshore installation managers and well site leaders. Formal assessment will take place every three to five years, as appropriate for each role.
We are seeking to develop deeper technical expertise in-house in the critical disciplines of health, safety, engineering and operations. As part of this we have focused on bringing in expertise from other high-hazard environments with 29% of external hires into our safety and operational risk (S&OR) function in 2012 bringing experience of working in high-hazard environments.
We are also strengthening capability and consolidating our competency management programme. Our approach is being tested in a number of job categories, such as offshore installation managers and well site leaders. Formal assessment will take place every three to five years, as appropriate for each role.
Rewarding safety
Safety is an integral part of how BP employees are assessed and rewarded. We measure employees’ performance based both on what they deliver and how they deliver it, balancing near and long-term performance goals, specific safety objectives and behavioural expectations set with operating leaders. This helps to bring more rigour and consistency to the way we operate and the way we manage risk.
Attestation
The information on this page forms part of the information reviewed and reported on by Ernst & Young as part of BP's 2012 sustainability reporting.
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