With reasonable advance notice and in accordance with applicable state law, an employee may examine during business hours the personal information maintained by the company in an employee file specific to him or her, subject to BP's current document retention schedule. Personal information maintained prior to September 19, 2002, was subject to existing heritage company retention schedules and may no longer exit.
Certain materials may be withheld from inspection, including:
Security and investigative records relating to criminal or other conduct by the employee, which could harm the company's property, operations or business, or cause the company financial liability;
Documents concerning staff planning for such matters as business development, expansion or closure where more than one employee would be affected;
Information about persons other than the employee making the request if disclosure would constitute an invasion of the other person's privacy;
Information related to a threatened or pending claim between the employee and the company, which may be discovered in a judicial proceeding; and
Any portion of a test document.
A management representative or other authorized representative will be present while an employee is examining such information. An employee may request a copy of a specific document. Reasonable and customary fees may be charged for extensive copying of documents. BP has adopted a global Access Response Procedure which outlines suggested steps followed in response to a request to view personal data held by the company. This process provides a timeline of events to ensure that valid requests are processed in line with local practices, legislation or where no local law exists.
If an employee, upon examining his/her employee file, believes that information contained in it is inaccurate or incomplete, the employee may submit a statement of his/her position regarding the information. The employee's statement will be retained in the file as long as the information to which it pertains remains in the file. Also, if an employee believes that personal information held by the company has been used in a manner other than its intended purpose, or that inaccurate information has been used and has negatively impacted the employee, the employee can request a review of the matter and disposition by their Manager or by Human Resources.