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 7 Hand Cart
Article 234 (Rail Tracks for a Hand Cart)
- (1) The employer shall conform rail tracks which is to be used for a hand cart to the following provisions:
- (i) To have the radius of curvature of rail tracks of 5 m or more.
- (ii) To have gradients of one fifteenth or less
- (iii) To have the weight of a rail of 6 kg or more.
- (iv) To arrange sleepers with a diameter of 9 cm or more at appropriate intervals.
- (2) The provisions of Article 197 and of paragraph (2) of Article 232 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the rail tracks for a hand cart.
Article 235 (Installation of Brake)
- (1) The employer shall, as regards a hand cart to be used on a section of rail tracks with gradients of ten thousandth or more, install an effective hand brake in the hand cart.
Article 236 (Intervals, etc., of Carts)
- (1) The employer shall, when a worker operate a hand cart, have the worker carry out the following matters:
- (i) To have the intervals between carts of 6 m or more in sections of rising gradient rail tracks or horizontal rail tracks and of 20 m or more in sections of falling gradient rail tracks.
- (ii) Not to exceed the speed of 15 km/h when operated in sections of falling gradient rail tracks.
- (2) The worker set forth in the preceding paragraph shall, when operating a hand cart, carry out the matters listed in each item of the same paragraph .
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