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 II Safety Standards
Chapter II Construction Machine, etc
Section 3 Railway Equipment and Hand Cart
Subsection 3 Vehicle
Article 208 (Brake of a Power Vehicle)
- (1) The employer shall equip a power vehicle with a hand brake, and equip a power vehicle having the vehicle body weight of 10 tons or more with a power brake.
- (2) The employer shall set ratio of the pressure of a brake applied to the brake shoe to the pressure of the brake wheel applied to rails to fifty hundredth or more but seventy-five hundredth or less for a power brake and twenty hundredth or more for a hand brake.
Article 209 (Facilities for a Power Vehicle)
- (1) The employer shall not use a power vehicle unless otherwise prescribed as follows:
- (i) To be equipped with signaling device such as a whistle, an alarm bell;
- (ii) To be equipped with a front lamp and illuminating apparatus for cabins when operating the said power vehicle at night or underground;
- (iii) To be equipped with a lubricant pressure indicator for an internal combustion locomotive;
- (iv) To be equipped with an automatic circuit-breaker for an electric locomotive, and with an arrester for an electric locomotive with an aerial cableway system.
Article 210 (Operator's Seat of a Power Vehicle)
- (1) The employer shall not use an operator's seat of a power vehicle unless otherwise prescribed as follows:
- (i) To have a construction enabling an operator to maintain the view for operating safely;
- (ii) To be equipped with an enclosure, etc., in order to prevent an operator from dangers due to falling.
Article 211 (Worker Carrier)
- (1) The employer shall not use a vehicle exclusively for transporting workers (hereinafter referred to as “worker carrier”) unless otherwise prescribed as follows:
- (i) To be equipped with such devices as a seat, a grasping rod enabling workers to ride on the said carrier safely.
- (ii) To be equipped with an enclosure and a gate.
- (iii) As regards a worker carrier pulled by a winching system used on an inclined rails, to be equipped with facilities enabling an operator of the winch and a person riding on the worker carrier to communicate each other in an emergency.
- (iv) As regards the worker carrier set forth in the preceding item, to be equipped with an emergency stop device in order to prevent dangers due to cutting of a wire rope, excessive speed, etc.
- (v) As regards a worker carrier used on an inclined rails with an inclined angle of 30 degrees or more, to be equipped with a derailment preventive device.
Article 212 (Wheel)
- (1) The employer shall not use a wheel unless otherwise prescribed as follows:
- (i) To have the width which ensures that the tread mount safely on the rails when the tires with their flanges worn to the maximum extent pass the track part having the maximum gauge.
- (ii) To have a flange thickness which provides sufficient strength even when their flange have been worn to the maximum extent and while allowing the tires to pass through junctions and frogs.
- (iii) To have a flange height which is higher than that required for preventing tires from derailment and at the same time from riding on the joint plates, frogs, etc.
Article 213 (Coupler)
- (1) The employer shall, when coupling vehicles, use a secure coupler.
Article 214 (Coupling of Worker Carriers on an Inclined Rails)
- (1) The employer shall, in the case of using a worker carrier on an inclined rails and when coupling worker carriers with each other or to a wire rope socket with a chain or a link, use another auxiliary chain or wire rope in order to prevent the said vehicle from overrun due to cutting of the link or the chain.
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