Abstract: The newly issued "Work Safety Law" is the revision of the original law to strengthen prevention, clarify subject of liabilities for work safety, reinforce checking and controlling over potential safety hazards, enhance supervision and to step up penalties for violations. The new "Work Safety Law" highlighted following three aspects: emphasize the "people-oriented" principle, "red light" for any violation to work safety rules and deploy "tough hand" for supervision. Accordingly, higher demands have been presented for oil/gas pipeline safety management. With consideration to present situations, following views have been highlighted: establish sophisticated standards, rules and regulations for oil/gas pipeline safety management, thoroughly implement integrity management and auditing mechanism, promote researches related to supporting technologies and construction of safety culture to enhance safety supervision and execution of relevant codes to ensure safe operation of oil/gas pipelines.