r/ChemicalEngineering Jul 30 '25

Career Advice Is Chemical Engineering dangerous?

Hi I currently am a high school student and planned to study chemical engineering. It sounds fun to me since I'm good at science and math and like chemistry very much. However I've seen many news talking about the incidents happened around the world on chemical engineers such as explosion in the plant and poisoning in chemicals, they look so dangerous and I can't be sure anymore whether I would go on in this industry... do you think I can still learn it or not?? Thank you for your advices.

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u/Cool_Election7606 Jul 30 '25

Its dangerous for chemical plant operators but not for engineers.