Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health
Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 32 of September 30, 1972
Latest Amendments:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Ordinance No. 47 of March 30, 2007
In Japanese
掲載日：2008.03.28
Part I General Rules
Chapter VI Measures for Maintaining and Promoting Workers’ Health
Section 2 Personal Health Record
Article 53 (Issuance of a Personal Health Record)
- (1) A person who falls under the requirements prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in paragraph (1) of Article 67 of the Act shall be the one who has engaged in the work listed in the left column of the following table and falls under the requirements listed in the right column of the same table corresponding to the work concerned, at the time of or after their retirement from their service, after the date of enforcement of the Labour Standards Act (Act No.49 of 1947), or a person who falls under the requirements provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Work Requirement Work set forth in item (i), (ii) or (xii) of Article 23 of the Order To have experiences having engaged in the work concerned for three months or longer Work set forth in item (iii) of Article 23 of the Order Pneumoconiosis supervision classification determined pursuant to the provision of paragraph (2) of Article 13 of the Pneumoconiosis Act (Act No.30 of 1960) is No.II or III (including the cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis in paragraph (3) of Article 15, paragraph (2) of Article 16 and paragraph (2) of Article 16-2 of the said Act) Work set forth in item (iv) of Article 23 of the Order To have experience s having engaged in the work concerned for four years or longer Work set forth in item (v) of Article 23 of the Order To have experience s having engaged in the work concerned for five years or longer Work set forth in item (vi) of Article 23 of the Order To have experience s having engaged in the work concerned for five years or longer Work set forth in item (vii) of Article 23 of the Order To have experience s having engaged in the work concerned for three years or longer Work set forth in item (viii) of Article 23 of the Order To have tubercular shadow of a pervasive nature due to beryllium on both lungs Work set forth in item (ix) of Article 23 of the Order To have experience s having engaged in the work concerned for three years or longer Work set forth in item (x) of Article 23 of the Order To have experience s having engaged in the work concerned for four years or longer Work set forth in item (xi) of Article 23 of the Order To have irregular shadows on both lungs due to asbestos, or pleural thickening due to asbestos - (2) The personal health record (hereinafter referred to as “the record”) shall be issued, based on the application by the person who falls under the requirement prescribed by the preceding paragraph, by the Director of the competent Prefectural Labour Bureau (for a person who falls under the requirements after the person's retirement from the service concerned, by the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau who exercises jurisdiction over the area where the person resides).
- (3) A person who intends to make the application set forth in the preceding paragraph shall submit a Personal Health Record Issuance Application (Form No.7) to the Director of the competent Prefectural Labour Bureau (for a person who falls under the requirements of paragraph (1) after the person's retirement from the service, to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau who exercises jurisdiction over the area where the person resides) by attaching documents certifying the fact that the person who falls under the requirements of paragraph (1) (in cases where the said documents are not available, written statement about the said fact; including a thoracic direct X-ray picture or special X-ray picture in the case of a person who intends to make the application pertaining to the work set forth in item (viii) or (xi) of Article 23 of the Order).
Article 54 (Form of the Record)
- (1) The record shall be prepared by Form No.8.
Article 55 (Recommendation to Receive Medical Examinations)
- (1) The Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau shall, when issuing the record, recommend the person who receives the record to undergo the medical examinations provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Article 56
- (1) The Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau shall, when making the recommendation set forth in the preceding Article, inform the person who receives the record of the number of times and the method of medical examinations the person is to undergo and other matters necessary for the person to receive such examinations.
Article 57 (Presentation, etc., of the Record)
- (1) A person who has received the record (hereinafter referred to as “the owner of the record”) shall, when intending to receive a medical examination pertaining to the recommendation set forth in Article 55 (hereinafter referred to as “the medical examination” in this Article), present the record to the medical agency, which performs the medical examination.
- (2) The medical agency set forth in preceding paragraph shall, when having performed the medical examination for the owner of the record, record the results of the examination in the record of the person.
- (3) The medical agency set forth in preceding paragraph shall, when having performed the medical examination for the owner of the record, without delay, submit a report by Form No.9 to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau who exercises jurisdiction over the area where the said medical agency is located.
Article 58 (Renewal of the Record)
- (1) The owner of the record shall, when having changed the name or address, within 30 days, submit a personal health record renewal application (Form No.10), attaching the record, to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau who exercises jurisdiction over the area where the said owner resides, for the renewal of the record.
Article 59 (Reissuance of the Record)
- (1) The owner of the record shall, when having lost or damaged the record, submit g a personal health record reissuance application (Form No.10) to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau who exercises jurisdiction over the area where the said owner resides.
- (2) The person who has damaged the record shall, when files an application set forth in the preceding paragraph, append the damaged record to the application form.
- (3) The owner of the record shall, when found the record once lost after having received a record reissued, return the record once lost to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau set forth in paragraph (1).
Article 60 (Return of the Record)
- (1) When the owner of the record has died, the heir or the statutory representative of the said owner of the record shall return said record, without delay, to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau who exercises jurisdiction over the area where the said owner resided.
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