Safety at bp
Here’s a snapshot of bp’s safety efforts – and how we’re building an enduring safety culture
At bp, safety is an integral part of our beliefs and deeply embedded throughout our operations. Our clear goal is to eliminate fatalities, life-changing injuries and the most serious process safety incidents. Nothing is more important than the health and safety of our people, the communities where we operate – and our shared environment.
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 define the mindsets and behaviors that will help us continue building a culture where safety can thrive.
Together we:
- Genuinely care about each other
- Will not compromise our focus on safety
- Encourage and recognize the need to speak up
- Understand how work actually happens
- Learn why mistakes occur and respond supportively.
Safety requires more than rules and regulations. We’re constantly working to strengthen our safety culture – and we’re always learning.
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).