getting hse right and traction 2005
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Getting HSE right and Tr@ction
Getting HSE right
A policy is only effective if people understand it and work to it. Our business-wide HSE
management system, Getting HSE Right, helps line managers focus on critical needs,
forecast and allocate resources, set direction for HSE activities to improve performance.
During the coming year, we will be augmenting Getting HSE Right, to produce a more
comprehensive operating management system (OMS) that will help improve our safety
management processes and better integrate them with our operational procedures.
We set performance standards at business unit level. All BP businesses commit to deliver
specific health and safety objectives as part of their annual performance contracts.
Tr@ction
Our aim is to achieve continuous performance improvements. We can do so if we know how
well we are doing at any point in time. Our global reporting and management tool, Tr@ction
makes it possible to record and analyse safety performance more effectively than ever before.
Introduced in 2001, Tr@ction has more than 39,000 registered users. Over 81,000 incidents
or near misses were reported through Tr@ction in 2005. Using Tr@ction to track our safety
actions helps to ensure valuable lessons are learned and transformed into improved
performance.
Other safety measures
We used a number of approaches to encourage better health and safety standards in 2005:
Root cause analysis: a systematic method for investigating all accidents that helps us
look beyond the immediate reasons to diagnose and address the underlying cause.
Understanding these causes is often the key to avoiding similar incidents in future.
Golden Rules of Safety: initially introduced in exploration and production in 2001 before
group-wide adoption, the rules set out best practice health and safety guidelines for
employees in a clear and accessible way. These rules help avoid repeats of serious
accidents and are currently being revised to take into account lessons learnt from the root
causes of recent incidents. A new version of the Golden Rules of Safety will be
communicated in 2006.
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Advanced Safety Auditing (ASA): introduced into BP in 1997, ASAs involves observing
people at work, talking to them about the safety risks they face, then reaching agreement
on how these risks can be managed. In 2005 over 267,000 ASAs were reported in
Tr@ction .
Other processes, focused primarily on ensuring plant and process safety, help minimize the
risks to our employees, contractors and the public. These include Hazard and Operability
studies (HAZOP), Project health, safety and environment reviews (PSHER) and the BP
process safety standard.
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The information on this page forms part of the information reviewed and reported on by Ernst & Young as part of BP's 2005 sustainability reporting.