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The study described the situation of health employee work at chemical production in Vietnam (at 4 chemical production facilities representing 3 subsectors: Basic Chemical; Chemical fertilizers and pesticides). Health records showed that 90 percent of employee's health in type II and III; type IV and type V had low rate. The common disease of employees at these facilities was dentomaxillofacial and otolaryngology. Every year 58 percent to 75 percent of employees had sick leave, especially 8 percent to 12 percent of employees had a long period of sick leave over 3 days. Besides, the implementation of examination to detect occupational diseases for employee was not good enough about the number of diseases and employees. The proportion of cases having occupational expertise was not high. Occupational accidents coefficient of these facilities increased over the year from o.77 (2007) to 1.87 (2011). The cause of occupational accidents is mostly caused by the employee and the objective, mainly because the employee violated the rules and regulations, safe working methods (accounting for 75 percent of accidents).