Bp Safety Failings 'Go Right to Top' Baker Report Forces New Deal to Bring Back Union Inspectors at Refineries

The Sunday Telegraph London (January 14, 2007)

Author: Dan Roberts And Sylvia Pfeifer

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AN INDEPENDENT investigation into BP's Texan refinery disaster has concluded that there were serious structural deficiencies in the way the company managed safety stretching right up to its London headquarters.

The conclusions will be published on Tuesday in a damning report from a panel led by James Baker, the former US secretary of state, that casts new light on the pressures building up against Lord Browne, the chief executive, before his surprise retirement announcement on Friday.

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Bp Safety Failings 'Go Right to Top' Baker Report Forces New Deal to Bring Back Union Inspectors at Refineries

According to sources who have seen copies of the 250-page report, it focuses on failings in "process safety management'' that under...

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