The Baker Panel Report - ABSA

Notwithstanding these efforts, the Panel notes that BP will need to do much more in the area of developing and implementing a set of processsafety performance metrics. BP may need to change systems at individual refineries to readily produce meaningful process safety managementinformation that site management can use to track significant barometers of process safety performance. At the Texas City refinery, the largestand most complex of BP’s refineries, the operations manager reported to the Panel that she had developed her own list of process safety metricsin 2005 to be tracked across the refinery. She described for the Panel how difficult it has been to gather the data on these metrics and how, inthe absence of a robust management information system, she and her staff make phone calls or send e-mail to superintendents of individualunits to obtain the desired information.Finding:BP’s safety management system for its five U.S. refineries does not effectively measure and monitor processsafety performance.Performance Evaluation, Corrective Action, and Corporate Oversight C 196