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The Safety Ordinance for Cranes

(Ordinance of the Ministry of Labour No.34 September 30, 1972)

Chapter IX License and Practical Training

Section 2 Mobile Crane Operatorfs License

Article 229 (Mobile Crane Operatorfs License)
  • (1) The mobile crane operatorfs license shall be issued to any of the following person by the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau:
    • (i) A person who has passed the license examination for mobile crane operator;
    • (ii) A person who has passed the academic test of license examination for mobile crane operator and has completed the practical training course for mobile crane operation within one year from the day when the said test was conducted;
    • (iii) A person who has completed the training of the lifting and transporting machine operation-type crane operation course or the lifting and transporting machine operation-type stevedore course prescribed in the column of training courses of Appended Table 2 of the Ordinance on the Human Resources Development and Promotion Act, or the training (excluding the one conducted by correspondence) of the crane operation course or the stevedore course listed in the column of training courses of the Appended Table 4 of the same Ordinance, among the basic training or the ability redeveloping training which are the statutory training of paragraph (1) of the Article 27 of the Human Resources Development and Promotion Act, and underwent the training pertaining to a mobile crane;
    • (iv) Deleted;
    • (v) Other person provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Article 230 (Disqualification for License)
  • (1) The person prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in item (ii) of paragraph (2) of Article 72 of the Act pertaining to the mobile crane operatorfs license shall be those who are under eighteen years old.
Article 230-2 (Person Prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Set Forth in Paragraph (3) of Article 72 of the Act)
  • (1) A person prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in paragraph (3) of Article 72 of the Act pertaining to the mobile crane operatorfs license shall be those who are not able to properly operate the mobile craneor to properly confirm the surrounding conditions of the mobile crane necessary for carrying out the work pertaining to the said license, due to the physical or mental handicap.
Article 230-3 (Consideration on Measures, etc. Making-up Disablement)
  • (1) The Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau shall, in case finding that the person who has made the application of the mobile crane operatorfs license falls under the one prescribed in the preceding Article and when deciding whether or not to issuing the license to the said parson, take into consideration on compensating measures used by the said person, or conditions that the disablement is compensated or reduced by medical treatment which the said person is being given.
Article 230-4 (Limited License)
  • (1) The Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau may, to the physically or mentally handicapped person, issue the mobile crane operatorfs license by limiting the type of mobile crane eligible to operate or adding the necessary conditions on the operation.
Article 231 Deleted
Article 232 (Subjects of Examination)
  • (1) The license examination for mobile crane operator shall be conducted with the academic test and the practical skill test.
  • (2) The academic test shall be conducted on the following subjects:
    • (i) Knowledge on mobile cranes;
    • (ii) Knowledge on the prime movers and the electricity;
    • (iii) Knowledge on the dynamics necessary for operation of mobile cranes;
    • (iv) Related legislation.
  • The practical skill test shall be conducted on the following subjects:
    • (i) Operation of mobile cranes;
    • (ii) Signals for operation of mobile cranes
Article 233 (Exemption from Academic test, etc.)
  • (1) The Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau may, as regards the person listed in the left column of the following table, within the range of the test or subjects listed respectively in the right column of the same table, exempt the whole or a part of the academic test or the practical skill test of the license examination for mobile crane operator:
    Person eligible to be exempt Range of exempt tests or subjects
    • (i) A person who has completed the practical training course for mobile crane and is within one year since the day of the completion.
    • (ii) A person who has the experience engaged in the operation of a mobile crane with the lifting capacity of 5 tons or more for one month or longer at a mine.
    		Whole of the practical skill test
    • (i) A person who has passed the academic test of the last license examination for mobile crane conducted by the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau.
    • (ii) A person who has passed the academic test of the license examination for mobile crane conducted by the designated examination agency, and is within one year from the day when the said test was conducted.
    		Whole of the academic test
    A person who has obtained the crane/derrick operatorfs license or the ship lifting appliance operatorfs license Of the academic test, the subject listed in item (iii) of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, and of the practical skill test, the subject listed in item (ii) of paragraph (3) of the same Article
    A person who has completed the skill training course for floor-operated crane operation, light capacity mobile crane operation or sling work Of the practical skill test, the subject listed in item (ii) of paragraph (3) of the preceding Article
Article 234 (Details of License Examination for Mobile Crane Operator)
  • (1) In addition to the matters prescribed in Article 71 of the Safety and Health Ordinance and the in preceding two Articles, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare shall prescribe necessary matters for implementing the license examination for mobile crane operator.