Winter came as promised, and the skies of beijing were gray and dark, and the king in orange cotton was so spiritual that it contrasted with the winter of shawser. He pulled his cuffs out of his left hand, a red and swollen piece of coin. "you see, this was accidentally thawed by freon yesterday while repairing the air conditioning." wang fae looked at the daily reporter of the securities journal, and the look was bleak, as if it were normal。
In the age when air conditioning was almost universal to home, many people ignored the group of air conditioners, among them wang fei。
High-air work is routine
Environmental accidents
Wang fei, from zhang's family, was a printing man when he graduated. At age 20, he began studying maintenance techniques at a friend's home electric company。
He began with simple home electrical maintenance and then had access to air conditioning, refrigerators, freezers and large freezers for maintenance and installation. Wang fei's skill after coming to beijing has been of great use, and with the rapid development of large-scale central air conditioner installation, wang flew in the field of air conditioning installation。
Wang fei is from chiboro refrigeration co. Ltd. In beijing, and kiboro is a first-class agent of greek electric in north china, also representing united states brands of air conditioners, da king and haile. Wang fei is only a small member of such a large company, and more than his experienced teacher, who must work harder than others if he is to earn more and perform better。
He gets up to work by 7 a. M. Every morning, contacts his clients for maintenance, travels all day and comes home at 10 p. M. He sometimes has to sleep until 2 or 3 a. M., only four hours a day. Years and years, so back, that's his life。
Used to be the best-selling rfa air conditioner, it is now popular, and the technical requirements for workers in the air conditioning sector have increased as old models have been eliminated. However, the level of workers in the industry is uneven, and some workers who leave the company alone often experience safety accidents due to a lack of adequate safety awareness and safeguards。
For example, freon has no access to the open fire, some workers smoke while repairing, causing explosions; welding is at a temperature of more than 2,000 degrees, and workers are slightly and accidentally burned; the electricity on the line is 380 volts, and workers are at risk of electrocution; and others, even when they wear safety belts, fall from the air because of operational errors。
High-altitude work, which is almost their daily task, is a daunting task for young installers such as wang fei, some of whom are not adapted to high-altitude jobs and are dazed to the heights and unable to perform normal work. High-altitude operations are extremely dangerous, and workers accidentally fall off tools such as wrenchs, often hitting cars and people, and these losses are compensated for themselves。
Heavy air conditioners press their shoulders, like carrying the burden of life. Hundreds of pounds of machine carrying on their shoulders can cause physical imbalance and tremors, and if they look away, they can cause the machine to fall. Each time they rise up, their lives are tied to a rope。
In beijing, the winter was exceptionally cold, often at minus 78 degrees outside the room, and air-conditioning outdoors were blown at minus dozens of degrees, and in most cases they were left bare-handed with tools to repair the air conditioner and their hands were often frozen. In summer, on the contrary, air-conditioning maintenance seasons are high, with ambient temperatures of more than 30 degrees and the heat of the air-conditioning exterior winds of more than 40 degrees, often wetting them when they complete a maintenance mission。
Workers also work in difficult working environments, where work is often carried out simultaneously in multiple types of work sites, where large amounts of particulate dust are visible in the interior floating in the air and electrical lines are suspended in corridors at a high risk and workers are very vulnerable to pneumonia. In the face of hazards such as dust, dust and paint, many older workers lack safety awareness and often do not wear masks and helmets, which is one of the reasons for the frequency of safety incidents。
Rapid industrial upgrading
The challenges of technological change continue
As an air conditioner maintenance worker, wang fei was a little excited to mention the misunderstanding of his industry. He from the countryside worked hard to earn and support his family and worked with his life, but could not escape the social misunderstanding of his profession. “the industry may have a number of indiscriminate fees, but most formal companies have tariffs that cannot be biased. We can't let the grass-roots people become the "spoilers."
Despite the difficult environment, the industry is now gaining prominence, which offers many opportunities for air conditioners such as wang fei。
With the rise in labour prices in recent years, air-conditioning installation and maintenance services have become relatively more profitable areas in the air-conditioning industry, of which “green hammers” are one. According to zhang liang, chairman of the green hammer company, after decades of development of the electricity industry, air conditioners are now installed and sold at the last profit high, and the influx of companies in these years has also increased the motivation of air conditioners。
At the same time, the air-conditioning industry itself is constantly changing technology, which has brought about a shift in the treatment of workers。
Liu kwon, chairman of the board of directors, chiboro refrigeration equipment limited, beijing, stated: “in recent years, some of the emerging high-end air conditioners, such as cachots, have become more popular in the market and have been sold at relatively high prices, but are also very demanding in terms of design, installation, etc. For the installation of workers, whose specialization in this field is paid at twice the level of ordinary workers.”
After-sale services are a large market of trillions of dollars, involving basic livelihoods, but they need to be robust in terms of rules, standards, workers' security, etc. Platform services should be able to establish good operating and pricing systems。
