industrial overlord

Chapter 272 Environmental Protection
"No, this workshop cannot be put into production!"

Standing in the middle of the circuit board dismantling workshop, Li Hui, deputy director of internal medicine at the No.1 People's Hospital of Xunyang City, said to Lin Zhenhua with a serious face.

Since the incident of Lang Dong being poisoned, Lin Zhenhua has raised the issue of labor protection to an important position in the company.At the invitation of Lin Zhenhua, Li Hui, a mother-in-law with a tofu heart, was hired as the company's senior health consultant, responsible for guiding the company's employees' medical care and labor protection during the production process.

After the circuit board dismantling workshop was completed, Lin Zhenhua invited Li Hui to the work site and asked her to evaluate the pollution problem.Li Hui took several instruments to test for a long time, and finally came up with a conclusion: the pollution was too serious to be put into production.

The dismantling process of the circuit board is to first clean the waste circuit board with an acidic solution to wash off the dirt on it.Then use an electric soldering iron to remove the solder sticking to the components to separate the components from the circuit board.Subsequently, workers on the production line will use tweezers to pick off the components one by one and put them into trays by category.

After the disassembly work is completed, someone needs to test the disassembled components later to determine whether they are damaged.All components that pass the test can be reused in the production of electronic equipment.Modern society produces a large amount of e-waste. Recycling these e-waste not only costs nothing, but also charges a garbage disposal fee.And the components obtained by dismantling these e-waste are of high value, so this business can be described as a huge profit.

At that time, the quality of domestic electronic components was not up to standard, and some high-end components could not be self-sufficient.By dismantling foreign waste circuit boards, a large number of high-quality and scarce components can be obtained, and its significance cannot be simply measured by money.

However, the pollution caused by dismantling the circuit board is also very serious. The solder and flux used in the soldering process have certain toxicity. damage.

In that era, not many people were able to recognize this kind of environmental hazards, but Lin Zhenhua and the group of returnees under him had this awareness.After Lin Zhenhua proposed to build a circuit board dismantling workshop, Xiang Zhe had a very serious talk with him. The core content was how to protect the rights and interests of employees in the process of industrial development.Xiang Zhe raised this matter to the height of corporate social responsibility, which made it impossible for Lin Zhenhua to avoid it.

In order to eliminate the pollution in the workshop, Lin Zhenhua invested several 10 yuan in the installation of air filtration, dust removal and other equipment in the workshop, which has reduced the pollution to a very low level.However, even at such a low level, in Li Hui's eyes, it is still poisonous work, which is intolerable.

"Sister Li, isn't your standard too high?" Lin Zhenhua asked.Actually, according to Li Hui's age, Lin Zhenhua should call Li Hui his aunt.

"Xiaolin, do you know that this kind of circuit board dismantling project is not allowed in developed countries at all." Li Hui said.She has read a lot of foreign journals and knows a lot about international health standards.

Lin Zhenhua nodded again and again: "Of course I know. It is because of this that so many waste circuit boards flow to us. Sister Li, you don't know that the components on these circuit boards are precious."

"What's the matter baby? Can't human life and health compare to the value of these components?" Li Hui reprimanded with staring eyes.

Lin Zhenhua said: "It is precisely because I know this that I invested a lot of money in the treatment. You see, there is a special ventilation device above the assembly line, which sucks the waste gas generated during the heating process and sends it to the treatment device for purification. Now the pollution level of our workshop is absolutely the lowest among other similar workshops in China."

"I admit this." Li Hui said, "But even so, I have just measured that the depth of cadmium, lead, arsenic and other elements in the air in your workshop is more than ten times higher than the standard. Workers have been living in such an environment for a long time. Working there can lead to chronic poisoning."

"Then what should we do?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

Li Hui looked at the equipment in the workshop, sighed, and said, "Xiao Lin, you have already set up such a big business. Now I ask you to stop this project. I'm afraid you can't accept it? I really can't figure it out. Why are Chinese companies so enthusiastic about industries that have been eliminated by the country?"

Lin Zhenhua said: "It's very simple, it's because our country is poor."

"No matter how poor you are, the value of human life is the same." Li Hui said.

Lin Zhenhua shook his head and said, "Sister Li, I want to ask you a question. You work in a hospital. Have you ever met a patient who gave up treatment because of lack of money?"

Li Hui was stunned for a moment, nodded heavily, and said: "Yes, some patients can be saved if they can use some high-end medicines. However, they can't afford such medicines, so we can only watch them die Yes. Sometimes, we doctors wish we could help them with our own money, but there are so many patients like this, and our doctors’ voluntary donations can’t help many of them.”

Lin Zhenhua said: "That's right, if I give you 1 yuan to buy these high-priced medicines, you can save the lives of one or even several patients, so the value of their lives is 1 yuan." , or even a few thousand yuan. Sister Li, are you right?"

Li Hui was silent. As a doctor, her duty was to save lives and heal the wounded. She never thought that human life is actually valuable.She had to admit that what Lin Zhenhua said sounded cruel, but it was the truth.She has seen this scene many times: a patient was forced to forego treatment because he could not afford the high medical costs.

Although employees of state-owned units have public medical care or labor insurance medical care, high-priced medicines cannot be reimbursed.Sometimes, a disease that cannot be cured by ordinary antibiotics worth a few cents can be solved by an imported antibiotic costing tens of dollars, but how many families can afford such imported medicines?
Whoever said that life is priceless, because without a few hundred or a few thousand yuan, a living life will disappear, this is the price of life.

"Xiao Lin, you are right. I have stayed in Africa, where a penicillin can save a life. However, the people there are too poor to afford a penicillin. People there can live to 30 It was very difficult at the age of [-], because the medical conditions were too poor." Li Hui said.

Lin Zhenhua said: "Sister Li, you understand now that money is not everything, but without money is absolutely impossible. To keep the people healthy, you must earn money, and in the process of earning money, there may be pollution, and It will harm the health of the people. It's a contradiction."

"However, economic development can also be achieved without pollution. Look at Western countries." Li Hui retorted.

Lin Zhenhua said: "We don't have their technology. If there is such a clean, high value-added industry, Western countries will definitely hold it in their own hands. With our current strength, we can't compete with them at all. As a rising country , we can only choose this dirty and tiring industry.”

There have been a lot of discussions in later generations about the relationship between economic development and pollution avoidance.Those who stand and talk without back pain think that it is better not to develop than to have pollution, otherwise it is a big treason.Lin Zhenhua cannot accept such a view.There is no pollution in Africa, but are the African people happy? Worshiping GDP is certainly wrong, but without GDP, what can you use to improve people's lives, and what can you use to improve people's welfare?
Even Western countries were not able to live such a comfortable life from the very beginning. Their prosperity today is based on the hardships of yesterday.London used to be the capital of smog. Old industrial bases like Chicago and Birmingham used to be a hell on earth full of chimneys and the sun was covered by smoke and dust.This is a price that no country can avoid.

"According to what you say, we will always have to do this kind of dirty and tiring work?" Li Hui asked.

Lin Zhenhua said: "Don't worry, Sister Li, this is just a process. I assure you, in at most 20 years, we will be able to sit on an equal footing with Western countries, and by that time, we can also put pollution prevention and control as the most important thing. In this position, polluting industries are resolutely refrained from doing so. However, before that, we have to endure all of this.”

Li Hui shook his head helplessly, and said: "Xiao Lin, I found that you always have a theory. I don't know if you are right, but as a doctor, I still cannot allow you to let workers work in such an environment for a long time .”

Lin Zhenhua asked with a bitter face: "Sister Li, I've been talking for a long time, and it's all for nothing?"

Li Hui thought for a while and said, "It's not impossible. I have two requirements. If you can meet these two requirements, I think the damage to the workers in this workshop will be minimized."

"No problem, let alone two requests, 100 requests are fine." Lin Zhenhua said vowedly.

Li Huidao: "The first requirement is that all workers must wear special masks during work. There must be activated carbon in the interlayer of the masks to absorb toxic substances in the air."

"It's absolutely fine." Lin Zhenhua said, "If necessary, I can purchase a batch of gas masks."

"A gas mask is not necessary." Li Hui laughed, her eyebrows curved into a beautiful arc.She is quite satisfied with Lin Zhenhua in general. Hanhua Heavy Industry's labor protection is the best among all enterprises in Xunyang City. As the executive vice president, Lin Zhenhua personally stands here to discuss labor with her. Protection issues, this is very rare.

"Second, the working hours of workers must be strictly limited. The working hours of workers in each shift cannot exceed 4 hours, and the working hours cannot exceed 20 hours per week."

Lin Zhenhua nodded: "That's okay, I'll let them work in this workshop for the first half of the time, and change jobs for the second half."

"Third..." Li Hui continued.

"Sister Li, didn't you say there are only two conditions?" Lin Zhenhua asked with a smile.

Li Hui said: "This is not a condition, it's just a suggestion. You should define the work in this workshop as a toxic operation, and pay health allowances to the workers. In addition, it is recommended that workers working in this workshop should often eat pig blood, mung beans, etc. , These are all helpful for detoxification. Also, every three months, you have to have them undergo a comprehensive physical examination, and if there are signs of poisoning, they cannot continue to work."

"Okay, I accept everything." Lin Zhenhua readily agreed.

(End of this chapter)