Operations Management In Gas And Pipeline Industry Of Australia: A Study Of Health And Safety Policy

Research Question

In this particular research, the overall attention has been provided in understanding the aspects of operations managed within the gas pipeline construction within the country of Australia. Due to the aspects generated through economic globalization, it is highly important to understand the research questions framed in order to pertain the feasibilities through which the different understandings are enabled. With the approach of this particular analysis, the research has been facilitated to understand the overall operations management occurred within the gas and pipeline sector of the respective country Australia. Therefore, the overall procedure has settled the factors in identifying the approach so as to measure the interventions regarding the research design.

In order to pertain the research, the researcher has to cumulate the perspectives in underpinning the activities such as different perspectives regarding the overall factors so as to ensure proper consequences in identifying the operations within the gas and pipeline industry of Australia. In the world of economy advancements of industries have been thoroughly entailed (Ríos-Mercado & Borraz-Sánchez, 2015). Thus propounding upon the situation, the research question have been enacted that has assisted in pertaining the research is What are the assurance provided from operating management within the gas and pipeline industry ensuring proper health and safety policy. Thus considering this particular research question, the overall review generated from the eminent scholars has been significantly entailed.

The aspects of the mind map have been permissibly embedded about how the research has been undertaken. In order to cumulate the overall research, understanding the research topic has to be done. 

Figure 1 – Mind Map

This can be easily justified by the facts that the overall design will assist the researcher in underpinning the instances through which the research will be followed. To assess the findings and proper analysis it is quite important to underpin the research design. Different types of research design have been underpinned in order to undertake the research. It is quite apparent that two types of research design have pertained. The explanatory research design has embedded the overall aspects of explaining the data gathered from the overall survey made. On the other hand, exploratory research design has facilitated the exploration in empowering the activities sustained within different consequences through which overall ideas are reflected in the research procedures. It has been underpinned about the information gathered that the explanatory research design can also be affirmed through the descriptive and casual approach which has facilitated the research process effectively. In order to understand the secondary sources gathered from the past researches, the descriptive research design has been selected in order to measure the appropriateness of the research. This will highly facilitate the instances in identifying all the approaches so that the overall research can be easily justified. Literature Planer

Weeks	Planning Activities
Week 1	In the week 1, the demonstration of the gas and pipeline sector of Australia has been significantly managed and the members by attaining active strategies have ensured proper operation management so that the industry will be benefitted acquiring higher revenues. It has been understood that the business activities has highly determined the factors through ensuring proper attainment of strategies so as to measure continuous improvement within health as well as safety outcomes. In order to pertain these situations, different functionalities are varied in accordance with the adopted strategies.
Week 2	The overall assessment has been affirmed within week 2 with the propagation through which the incidents occurred within the firm has deliberately judged the incidents in following the measurements assured through determining the effects (De Silva, et al., 2016). The overall commitment has significantly managed through intervening the activities so as to cumulate the observation identifying the actual derivatives considering the approaches regulating all the perspectives of the business. Therefore, it is quite important in maintaining the standpoint so as to ensure the perspectives through which the health, as well as safety policies, are adopted encircling the operation management.
Week 3	The week 3 has empowered the reflection of the ideas provided according to Ríos-Mercado & Borraz-Sánchez, (2015), the primary considerations have been significantly uttered with the effects of different commitment ensuring the involvement within the industries. Therefore, it is highly justified with the facts of measuring the culture and the excellence within the health as well as safety performance accumulated through the responsibilities and also the accountabilities. According to Trigger et al, (2014), the allocation regarding the necessary resources has been achieved in order to understand the facilitation enabled upon the significant decision regarding the formulation of underpinning circumstances. According to Zhang, et al., (2015), the maintenance of the effective as well as the proactive environment within the management of gas and pipeline industry has also sufficed the factors enabling the judgment developing the disseminate the applicable construction proportion in order to generate different safety as well as guidelines for the industry.
Week 4	In order to underpin the factors, it is always sustained that addressing the health as well as safety procedures will highly implement the opportunities in ensuring the overall process that has let them managing the differentiation so as to procreate all the assertive situation in managing the operations. Different legislative instances have always facilitated the ideas in operating all the situation consolidating actual persistent behaviors so as to ensure the consecutive viabilities helpful for the research. As opined by Cui & Wu, (2015), it has been understood that the overall evaluation has been sustained by pertaining risk assessment techniques so as to control the characteristics regulating factors. The formalities have instigated the influence of the potential hazards that can be elucidated with the overall consequences regulating the operation management with the gas and the pipeline industries. The significant decision has engulfed that the incorporation regarding the assessment has been controlled in accordance to the arguments that have generated the contributions in allocating all the determination ensuring the factors (Bahr, 2014). In accordance with the determination, it has been ascertained that the overall procedures have been managed to improvise the management consequences in order to underpin all the efficacies that have been operated through the interventions in mitigating the harmful activities.
Week 5	As per the identification of Maslen,  (2014), the reduction mechanism of all the harmful characteristics will have to be reduced through the actions that can easily permissible in operation made by the respective workforce for the industry. According to Bahr, (2014), it is also important to accumulate all the industrial functions in operating different self-mitigation process assumed by determining the leakage system within the firm. It is quite obvious that the circumstances have to be managed effectively in order to underpin the knowledge that will help in coordinating the better environmental aspects surrounding the industry. It has been ascertained that the adjustments regarding the overall factors that has attained the safety within the gas and pipeline industry of Australia (Hayes & Maslen, 2015). In order to underpin the overall consequences, it is quite important to measure important hazards regulating with the daily usage of the respective inhabitants within the localities. Thus according to Hayes & Maslen,  (2015), different commitment level among the managers, it has to keep in mind that the contamination of the water will effectively cease each and every health consequences of the environment where the gas and pipeline industry has been operated. It is quite important to adhere different selection of materials that should not affect the corrosion control in order to protect the entire respective cathode required for absorbing the gases within the pipeline system.

Research Design

Conclusion

Thus it can be ascertained that the interventions selecting the health and safety policies will definitely be ensured the perception enabling all the determination in assessing the effects of operation management within the gas and pipeline industries of Australia. Therefore, the research has also facilitated the instances through identifying the factors through which different assumptions have been significantly measured through overall operations managed within the influences within the health as well as safety policies within the firm. 

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