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BP plans company-wide review of operating procedures

11/26/2007
BP PLC, as part of its response to a series of accidents, plans next year to review the quality and safety of its operating procedures company-wide.Mike Broadribb, BP’s international director of process safety, told a meeting of the American Society of Safety Engineers in Houston this month that the fatal Mar. 23, 2005, blast at the 446,500 b/cd Texas City, Tex., refinery was preventable.“It’s not an easy story to tell; BP doesn’t come out very well,” Broadribb said. “Texas City was a preventable incident, a totally preventable process failure, a management failure, and a culture failure.”BP and others, including the US Chemical Safety Board, have...
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