What is it like to work in a chemical factory?

I work in a chemical plant. Now I am a common operator, responsible for maintaining the normal operation of machines and doing some chores.

When working in a chemical factory, you first have to endure various smells, some are sour, some are smelly, some are pungent, some are nauseating, and some are eye-smelling. In different workshop positions, there will be different concentrations. Special attention needs to be paid to some toxic and harmful gases, such as hydrogen sulfide, chlorine, carbon monoxide, toluene, etc. Because of negligence in certain places, lives can be lost. There are countless such examples.

The workshop I am in is wastewater treatment, which mainly removes pollutants through evaporation and condensation. Because the treatment technology is backward and the water quality is relatively complex, there are a lot of things in the workshop and equipment problems occur frequently. Pipes are corroded, pumps are failing, salt buildup clogs centrifuges, and more. Some problems in the workshop will be handled by the factory construction team, but operators like us will definitely not be idle. We need to clean up the site and help deal with various problems. The most important thing is that the salary is only 3,560.

Fortunately, my workshop does not have a dangerous environment of high temperature and pressure, no toxic, harmful, flammable and explosive gases, and no corrosive chemicals. The safety factor is relatively high. Only the compressor may explode, which has happened once in five years.

Although we are far away from these toxic gases, ammonia, methyl ester and other irritating gases will inevitably come from other workshops, which makes people very uncomfortable. There is still dust in the air and the equipment is noisy. The difference in working environment is evident.

Some ignorant people once said that if you are unmarried and cannot work in a chemical factory, it will lead to lifelong infertility. In fact, this is a wrong view. Of course, the situation will exist, but you will only be exposed to some special chemical raw materials in some very special positions. The factory will also tell employees that they will use high wages to recruit workers into this kind of position. Generally, only employees in their 40s and 50s will choose to go.

In chemical factories, some jobs are completely life-threatening and make money. Our factory has a workshop called "DCNQ". This product is a relatively highly toxic chemical. Most people are allergic to this stuff. The factory used a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan to recruit people, but it was difficult to recruit people. In the end, it was completely abandoned due to environmental issues.

There is an advantage to working in a chemical factory. The work is relatively easy. If everything is normal, you will be able to make time. For an operator like me, the workload is very small with a twelve-hour shift. But the wastewater treatment workshop where I work is an exception. It's very tiring. The production workshop is relatively relaxed, but it is easy to come into contact with harmful substances.

If I were given a chance, I would definitely not work in a chemical factory again. But in order to pay off the mortgage, I had to go. In our urban area, when we first attracted investment, a large number of chemical plants and smelting plants entered the city. The working environment in the smelting plant is even worse and the workload is relatively heavy. As a low-level employee, there are not many choices.

So, for low-level employees, talking too much will bring tears. Sometimes I really want to start my own business and do some business. But because of the mortgage, I was completely suppressed because I couldn't afford to lose.

Seeing that everyone has written a lot above, let me add a few words!

To put it more clearly, each of us cannot do without chemical plants for food, clothing, housing and transportation, such as plastic bowls and chopsticks for eating; clothes made of spandex, nylon and other materials; furniture and decoration materials at home. materials; many non-metal parts of automobiles, all of which come from the chemical industry. The most primitive materials for chemical production are petroleum, coal, natural gas, etc. I once told a girl, "The elastic underwear you are wearing are all made of petroleum." She was surprised, but this is the fact!

Therefore, chemical industry has penetrated deeply into our lives, and our lives cannot be separated from chemical industry!

Many chemical plants produce all year round and will never stop production except for maintenance, market and other reasons. Therefore, most of the front-line workers in chemical plants work in three or four shifts (8-hour or 12-hour shift work system), and national statutory holidays have no meaning to them. Including the Spring Festival, when we care about reunion the most, is no exception.

Among the ordinary workers in chemical plants, there are those responsible for automation control (the professional term is "internal operation"). They are responsible for monitoring and remotely adjusting production process parameters through computers. Once you get to work, you have to sit on a stool for 8-12 hours, staring at two or three computer screens; ordinary workers in chemical plants also include on-site operators (the professional term is "outside operators"), who are mainly responsible for on-site equipment in chemical plants. Operation, inspection, and adjustment of process equipment, including on-site sanitation maintenance, etc.

Of course, ordinary workers in chemical plants also include maintenance, laboratory and other personnel.

In addition, in addition to ordinary operators, chemical plants also have many managers. Those directly related to production are called professional and technical personnel. They are generally technicians and engineers. Responsible for the management of equipment, processes and safety in production. In most chemical companies, their work is stressful and exhausting (for the uninitiated: they are not "officials"). Salary is generally slightly higher than that of operators.

Some people may want to ask, can major (larger) safety accidents in chemical plants be completely prevented? Theoretically it's possible, but in practice it's impossible, at least not in the next 50 years! All we can say is to minimize safety issues as much as possible.

Why?

1. Inevitability.

Some security management is lax and long-term violations will inevitably occur over time. For example, if you stipulate that safety belts must be worn when working at heights, if you violate this rule for a long time and survive 99 times, there will definitely be a big problem (fall to death) on the 100th time!

2. Accident.

Some large enterprises with strict safety management organize production operations in strict accordance with laws, regulations and operating procedures. However, you will always ignore some small problems, which can lead to big accidents. (This point is incomprehensible in the eyes of those who pursue perfection. But anyone who has experienced it knows that not all accidents can be avoided.)

In addition, in the toxic and harmful chemical industry People who work in enterprises will suffer more or less physical damage.

That’s a lot to say, everyone is welcome to add!

Hello, I’m happy to answer your question! I felt very helpless, tired, dangerous, and the working environment was bad. I couldn't help but leave! I worked in a local chemical factory in 2012 for two months and then got out!

You may have only heard of chemical plants, and there are many news about chemical plants, such as explosions and poisoning incidents, but you don’t know what they produce. The chemical plant I entered is a fertilizer company. The production company is also somewhat famous in our local area and even the province. Everyone should know that fertilizer is a nutritional product of the manufacturer. When we open the fertilizer packaging bag, we will smell a strange smell, even a pungent smell. This is because the fertilizer contains ammonium bicarbonate and has an ammonia smell. You can imagine how we feel in the production workshop!

First, working in a chemical factory is easy to cause poisoning and cause physiological disorders. People who work in chemical plants will wear gas masks, but gas masks are not a panacea. When you stay in the factory for a long time, you will have an obvious feeling that after the poisonous gas enters the human body, it damages the physiological functions or tissues of certain tissues and organs of the human body. Structure, severe organ failure.

Second, it can easily suffocate people and cause organ hypoxia. When working in a chemical factory, we often breathe in toxic foreign bodies, which can cause the glottis to suddenly close, preventing oxygen from entering the body, which will cause us to be hypoxic. After working for a long time, we will naturally feel uncomfortable.

Third, you will also encounter burns when working in a chemical factory, because some materials require high temperatures to be processed, so it is also very dangerous.

Fourth, because chemical plants are all open workshops, the environment is not very good. There is a lot of waste, waste water, waste gas, and dust everywhere. The most unacceptable thing to me is the waste gas. The body sometimes feels like it is suffocating due to lack of oxygen.

Fifth, the clothes I wear when I work in a chemical factory are also very dirty. Every time I go home to wash my clothes, I wash them separately from other clothes because they are so dirty.

Well, that’s all for my personal feelings.

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In the blink of an eye, I have been working in a chemical plant for 6 years. Different positions have different experiences. Let me tell you about me. After graduation, I was very hungry and found connections to work in a chemical factory, where I started boiling frogs in warm water for six years.

Comfort and various problems Why do we say comfort? This is like boiling a frog in warm water, because the efficiency is good and the salary is guaranteed, so I can't bear to part with the salary and can only endure it. What's wrong?

One is safety, two is health, three is future, and four is disconnected from society.

1. Security issues. Let's just talk about an accident. That time I happened to be in a bunker 100 meters away. If I happened to pass by or go inside within 15 meters, it would be a disaster. Fortunately, there were no casualties in that accident.

2. Health issues. All kinds of chemicals, intermediate products, by-products, and finished products in the factory are harmful to health. In particular, certain gases generated will be obvious during the driving and stopping stages. Why don't you go home from get off work? It's 50 kilometers away from the city, and it's impossible for shift workers to go home every day, and there are still many who call the factory their home. In addition, working three shifts is not good for the body and mind. I won’t go into details.

3. Future Issues: This industry is based on seniority and relationships. The factory started production in 2008, and I didn’t join the factory until 10 years ago. I didn’t have any strong connections, so I didn’t have much of a future. You can refer to this. In our factory, all the undergraduates in 2006 are all directors in charge, all the undergraduates in 2007 are all sponsors or core technicians, all the undergraduates in 2008 are all in management, and all the undergraduates after 2009 are all in charge. It's workers. The salaries are respectively 10,000 to 16,000, 8,000 to more than 10,000, 7,000 to 9,000, and 4,000 to 6,000. Of course, workers are not eligible to have any professional titles, and the minimum number for those with professional titles is 9,000.

4. Isolation from society The factory is a small society typical of the industrial era. All your social interactions are in the factory. You have to give your leaders a smile and be careful to get along with your colleagues, because you don’t look down when you look up. See. Since the focus is on this small society, there will be very few real social contacts, especially in unfamiliar cities that are less inclusive. However, a person's opportunities only appear after contacting society. This is a vicious circle.

In summary, I suggest that the subject of the question engage in the chemical industry after thorough research. Don’t be hungry and choose food. Ask yourself whether you are ready to leave the information age and regress back to the industrial age. Are you ready to use it? Health is exchanged for money. Are you ready to endure unfair treatment in career? Are you ready to be separated from your family and friends? Are you ready? No matter how hard you try, as long as you don't leave, there will be no hope.

The most terrifying thing about people is that they can see themselves 10 years from now. As an ordinary person, I don’t have much ability. I worked in several positions in a chemical factory, including those with more contact with the outside world. Finally, I returned to a three-shift position with a higher salary, as a small squad leader, etc. After I have saved enough money, I don’t need to gnaw at the old money. I will escape from this pot of warm water sooner rather than later.

I graduated from a 211 university in 2015 with a major in chemical machinery (process equipment and control engineering to be precise). After graduation, I started working in an oil refinery and have been working shifts on the front line ever since. Nowadays, environmental protection is very strict. Central enterprises and state-owned enterprises are always the pioneers of national institutional policies. They have invested a lot in environmental protection and there is no odor in the factory. Various active and passive safety measures are complete. The level of employees is generally very high. The company has regular employee training, high-level operations and sis system protection, and there have been no accidents for many years. Of course, there are still considerable dangers on the front line, and shift work is harmful to the body. At the age of 25, I have clearly noticed that my memory is declining.

I also work in a chemical factory, working two shifts for 12 hours. The salary is less than 4,000 yuan, and we don’t have five insurances and one gold. The factory does not buy insurance for us. All the raw materials we use are Toxic industrial raw materials such as dibenzoic acid, phenol, cresol, phthalate, and some solid raw materials are all harmful to the body. Although there are masks, sometimes I still feel chest tightness and breathlessness. The boss of the factory is still picky about the masks. The insurance products are only paid out once every half a month. The reduction and reduction of supplies is not for the sake of living. Who wants to work in this environment? Every inspection is notified first and then inspected. The salary is falsified and not transparent. Every night, the entire park smells bad. The air now is... The entire chemical factory is seriously polluted. To control the environment, we must first control the polluting factories before we can have a blue sky

I just resigned from a chemical factory in February this year.

This chemical factory mainly produces pharmaceutical intermediates, which are raw materials for semi-finished products of Western medicine, and is mainly exported to Europe, the United States and India.

There are roughly three types: pediatric asthma, blood pressure lowering, and vitamin C.

The working hours are divided into three shifts, with each shift lasting 8 hours, which is a working system that stops people without stopping the machine.

As soon as you enter the factory, the first thing you smell is the pungent smell, which makes you feel nauseated and vomiting.

The machine roared again and the noise was very loud. I can't hear you even if you speak softly.

The raw materials and products are highly toxic, and they are all flammable and explosive.

Such as chloroform, tetrahydrofuran, etc., available in bagged powder and barreled water.

Cell phones and smoking are strictly prohibited in the factory. Work clothes are made of uniformly issued cotton fabrics. When working, you are fully armed, including a hard hat, protective glasses, a gas mask and even an elephant trunk-type mask.

Mobile phones produce electromagnetic sparks, chemical fiber fabrics produce static electricity, and smoke is an open flame. Since the raw materials and products have very low ignition points, these are absolutely not allowed.

I mainly felt that toxic gases were harmful to the human body and caused throat inflammation. This was the main reason why I chose to leave the chemical industry.

The second issue is safety. Failure to follow procedures or misoperation may cause steam burns, nitrogen suffocation, fire, and explosion.

Due to its particularity and danger, the chemical industry was once unable to recruit people.

So the Human Resources Department recruits workers every day. Even if you introduce a worker, as long as he works for 6 months, the introducer will get a bonus of 300.

The age has been relaxed repeatedly, from 20s and 30s to 40s and 50s, but it is still difficult to recruit workers. We joked that this was a "nursing home."

There is a serious shortage of people in various positions. One employee can only support two, and some work 8 to 8 for a long time (12 hours).

Nowadays, various industries are experiencing labor shortages. The population is aging and people are working in first-tier cities. Some demolished households are resting on their laurels and are unwilling to work.

The chemical industry is a high-risk industry. Although there are five insurances and one housing fund, and living and accommodation have been improved, it is limited to the consumption level of the mainland, and wages are too low. These reasons have resulted in the inability to find chemical plants. People can’t keep people.

Three shifts, producing nitrogen trifluoride special gas, electrolysis section, pretreatment section, the workshop requires efficiency and output, but the equipment cannot meet the required output. It is extremely busy at work every day, so be careful Thousands, because the process was not advanced, there were many problems, and I was nervous every day. 8 out of 10 front-line workshops had fluoride in their urine. Because there were not many products produced in the country, the occupational diseases were unknown. For the sake of health, I ran away after working for a few years. The temperature in the electrolysis workshop is around 50 degrees Celsius. When entering the workshop, you need to wear a suit of sweatshirt and a raincoat, a gas mask on your head, a helmet and mask, anti-static work shoes on your feet, and a pair of thin latex gloves. I put on thick rubber-covered gloves on top, so that no trace of skin leaked from the whole body. I was still burned by the electrolytic raw material (many times stronger than sulfuric acid). Fortunately, I reacted quickly and used a special potion within one minute, otherwise it would have been burned into the bones. It's really hopeless when it's burned to the bone.

He was sent to the burn hospital. There was nothing the hospital could do.

Think about what it is like to work in a workshop in the summer. If you can work in a workshop for half an hour, you are considered a great person. The front-line employees in the workshop are not old and young, who does it? However, this factory is considered a good one in any city. There is no arrears of wages. Compared with other factories, the salary and benefits are much better. (Evolution Factory should carefully consider those who are unmarried and single. It is best not to go there, especially front-line workers. Many things that happen in the factory will be concealed. Fires, explosions, leaks, etc. are inevitable.) It is also for the sake of good health that I can’t finish it in a few words. I ran away after working for a few years and I don’t regret it at all. I was risking my life and health to make money. Working in an immature chemical plant is a life-threatening operation, and it is constantly improving due to various accidents. I hope that my former colleagues will do better and better.

I have worked in a petrochemical plant for more than ten years. In the beginning, our company was a private enterprise. Later, it was acquired by a state-owned enterprise. Now it has become a well-known state-owned enterprise. However, the wages and benefits are pitifully low. After receiving five social insurances and one housing fund, I get a monthly salary of about 3,000, and have about ten days of annual leave a year. I usually work four shifts and three shifts. The biological clock is disordered. Nowadays, chemical industry management is becoming more and more strict, and there are many unreasonable things in the state-owned enterprise system. , formalism is serious. Many times, going to work is more about dealing with various inspections and cleaning, and real production comes at the back. After having a family and children, due to shift work, I have less time to spend with my children. Sometimes I really want to I gave up this job, but the state-owned enterprises are like useless, so I can't make up my mind.

I majored in chemistry and have been working for more than ten years after graduation. In 2012, there was a big explosion in the company where I worked, and I also worked the night shift. However, chemical plants are definitely harmful to the body, and personal safety is not completely guaranteed, but there is no way. I have to support my family. I have worked in several chemical plants, and one of them is still very good. It is a laboratory. There is not much pressure. The leader appreciates it and I have a week off. A day and a half, the salary was okay, I was single, and I stayed there for four years. Because of a classmate's recommendation, I went to another factory to work as a workshop manager. Because it was a newly opened factory, the technology was immature, and I was tired. I lost more than ten pounds in a month or two. The boss didn't appreciate it, and the benefits were not good, so I left. , and later went to work as a workshop director in another pharmaceutical intermediates manufacturer. The salary was acceptable, and it was close to home. When I got home from get off work every day, I could take care of my children. The previous boss had built a new company nearby, and my classmate invited him over again. Although the relationship with the boss was not so good, the classmate was the director of the factory, so I went anyway. It was a new product, and it was all kinds of tiring and dirty. For some reasons, the company's ownership structure changed and the management changed. My classmate was still the director of the factory, but the general manager changed. After much deliberation, I resigned and went to work as the quality director of a traditional Chinese medicine extraction company. The salary was good and the working environment was very good. , it’s just that my wife can’t go to work, I have a child to raise, and I want to have a second child. When my classmate introduced me to the company for the first time, the boss changed, and my classmate was no longer there. The salary was improved. Although I hesitated, I went there anyway, and there were all kinds of things. Tired, this is my repeated experience in the chemical industry over the years.