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Industrial Safety and Health Law
Law No. 57 of June 8, 1972

Latest Amendments:
Law No. 25 of May 31, 2006

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Chapter VII. Measures for Maintaining and Promoting Workers' Health

Article 64.

Deleted

Article 65. (Working Environment Measurement)

(1) The employer shall, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, conduct necessary working environment measurement in respect to the indoor and other workshops prescribed by Cabinet Order as harmful work operations are performed, and keep the record of the results.
(2) The working environment measurement under the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall be carried out in accordance with the standards for working environment measurement provided for by the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare.
(3) The Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare shall make public the guidelines for working environment measurement necessary for ensuring the appropriate and effective implementation of the working environment measurement under the provisions of paragraph (1).
(4) When it is deemed necessary provided that the guidelines for working environment measurement set forth in the preceding paragraph are made public, the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare may give necessary guidance etc., in connection with the said guidelines for working environment measurement to the employers or working environment measuring institutions or their organizations.
(5) Where it is deemed necessary to maintain the health of workers through the improvement of their working environment, the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau may, on basis of opinion of the Medical Advisor in industrial Health, instruct the employer to carry out working environment measurement or take other necessary measures, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Article 65-2. (Assessment etc., of the Results of Working Environment Measurement)

(1) When the assessment of results of the working environment measurement under the provisions of paragraph (1) or (5) of the preceding Article indicates the necessity of measures for the maintenance of the health of workers, the employer shall take necessary measures such as providing the necessary facilities or equipment, medical examinations and other necessary measures for the maintenance of the health of workers in accordance with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
(2) The employer, who is to make the assessment set forth in the preceding paragraph, shall make the assessment in accordance with the working environment assessment standard by the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
(3) When the employer has made the assessment of results of the working environment measurement according to the provision of the preceding paragraph, the employer shall keep the record concerning the results of the assessment in accordance with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Article 65-3. (Control of Works)

The employer shall endeavor to pay attention to the health of workers and properly control their works.

Article 65-4. (Restriction of Working Hours)

An employer who is to have the workers engage in the work operations likely to damage the workers' health, such as diving work, and provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, shall not have them work against the standard concerning the working hours provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Article 66. (Medical Examination)

(1) The employer shall, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, have medical examinations of workers conducted by a physician.
(2) The employer shall, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, have medical examinations on specified items conducted by a physician on the workers engaged in harmful work operations defined by Cabinet Order. The same shall apply to the workers who have engaged in harmful work operations defined by Cabinet Order and are currently in employment.
(3) The employer shall, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, have a dentist perform medical examinations on the workers engaged in the harmful work operations defined by Cabinet Order.
(4) The Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau may, when it is deemed necessary for maintaining the health of workers, instruct employers on basis of the opinion of the Medical Advisor in Industrial Health and as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, to conduct a special medical examination and other necessary matters.
(5) Workers shall undergo the medical examination conducted by the employer under provisions of the preceding paragraphs, provided that this shall not apply in the case where a worker who does not desire to undergo the medical examination by the physician or dentist designated by the employer, submits a document to cerfiy the findings that the said worker has and undergone a medical examination by another physician or dentist equivalent to the medical examination under these provisions to the emplyer.

Article 66-2. (Submission of the result of voluntary medical examination by workers)

A worker engaged in a work between 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.. (when Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare finds it necessary, 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. for the area or period which designated by Minister; hereinafter reffered to as “night work,”) and whose night work frequency and other matters fall under the requirements provided for in the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare taken into account the maintenance of workers' health, may submit to the employer a document certifying the results of a medical examination (excluding medical examinations in the proviso of paragraph (5) of the preceding Article), as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Article 66-3. (Record of Results of Medical Examinations)

The employer shall, according to the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, record the results of medical examinations under the provisions of paragraph (1) to (4) and proviso in paragraph (5) of Article 66, and the preceding Article.

Article 66-4. (Hearing of Medical Doctor's Advice on Results of Medical Examination)

The employer shall, according to the provisions of the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, hear the opinion of a physician or dentist on necessary measures for maintaining the health of the workers based on the results of medical examinations under the provisions of paragraph (1) through (4) of Article 66, proviso in paragraph (5) and Article 66-2 (limited to the results of the medical examiantions on workers with abnormal findings).

Article 66-5. (Measures for following-up the medical examination)

(1) The employer shall, by taking into considerarion of the opinion of the physician or dentist under the provisions of the preceding Article, and when it is deemed necessary, take measures including changing the location of work, changing the work content, shortening the working hours or reducing the frequency of night work, along with conducting working environment measurement, installing or improving facilities or equipment, reporting the opinion of the said physician or dentist to the Health Committee or the Safety and Health Committee, or the Committee for the Improvement of Establishing Working Hours, etc. (provided for in paragraph (1) of Article 7 of the Act on Special Measures Concerning the Improvement of Establishing Working Hours, etc. (Act No. 90 of 2002); hereinafter the same), and other appropriate measures, considering circumstances of the said worker.
(2) The Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare shall make public necessary guidelines for promoting appropriate and effective implementation of the due measures by employers pursuant to the preceding paragraph.
(3) The Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare may, when it is deemed necessary, at the publication of the guidelines prescribed in the preceding paragraph, carried out necessary guidance etc., to employers or their organizations concerning the said guidelines.

Article 66-6. (Notification of results of medical examinations)

The employer shall, in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, notify a worker who had a medical examination carried out under the provisions of paragraph (1) to (4) of Article 66 of the results of the said medical examination.

Article 66-7. (Health Guidance etc.)

(1) The employer shall endeavor to give health guidance by a phisician or an health nurse for such workers as are specially deemed necessary to strive to maintain their health according to the results of a medical examination under the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 66 or the said medical examination under the proviso of paragraph (5) of the same article, or a medical examination under the provisions of Article 66-2.
(2) The worker endeavor to maintain the health by making use of the notified results of the health examination under the provisions of the preceding article and the health guidance under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

Article 66-8. (Face-to-face guidance etc.)

(1) The employer shall, as provided for in the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, provide a face-to-face guidance by a physician (referring to assessing the physical and mental condition of workers through medical interview or other methods and to providing necessary face-to-face guidance in response thereto. The same applies below), to a worker whose working hour or other conditions fall under one of the requirements that are specified, taking into account the workers' health maintenance by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
(2) A worker shall undergo the face-to-face guidance provided by the employer under the provision of the preceding paragraphs, provided that this shall not apply in the case where a worker who does not desire to undergo the face-to-face guidance by the physician designated by the employer, and undergo a face-to-face guidance equivalent to the face-to-face guidance under the same paragraph by another physician and submits a document to certify the findings to the employer.
(3) The employer shall, in accordance with the provision of the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, record the results of the face-to-face guidance under the provision of paragraph (1) and the proviso of the preceding paragraph.
(4) The employer shall, based on the results of the face-to-face guidance provided for in paragraph (1) or the proviso of the paragraph (1) or proviso paragraph(2), hear the opinions by a physician as to the necessary measures for maintaining the health of the said worker in accordance with the provision of the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
(5) The employer shall, by taking into consideration of the opinion of the physician under the provision of the preceding paragraph, and when it is deemed necessary, take measures including changing the location of work, changing the work contents, shortening the working hours, reducing the frequency of night work or other measures, along with reporting the opinion of said physician to the Health Committee, Safety and Health Committee or Committee for the Improvement of Establishing Working Hours, and other appropriate measures, considering the circumstances of the said worker.

Article 66-9.

The employer shall endeavor to take necessary measures as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, to workers whose health requires consideration, other than the workers for whom the face-to-face guidance is provided pursuant to the provision of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article.

Article 67. (Personal Health Record)

(1) For the person who meets the requirements provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare among those who have been engaged in work operations as defined by Cabinet Order which are liable to cause cancer or other serious health impairment, the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau shall issue a personal health record related to the said work operations at the time of their separation from this service or thereafter; provided that this shall not apply to those already in possession of a personal health record related to said work operations.
(2) The Government shall, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, take necessary measures in connection with the medical examination of a person in possession of a personal health record.
(3) A person to whom a personal health record was issued shall not transfer or lend the said personal health record to others.
(4) The form of a personal health record and other necessary matters related to a personal health record shall be provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Article 68. (Prohibition of Employment of the Sick)

The employer shall, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, prohibit the placement to work for the workers who have contracted communicable diseases and other diseases provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Article 69. (Health Education, etc.)

(1) The employer shall make continuous and systematic efforts for the maintenance and promotion of workers' health by taking necessary measures such as providing health education, health counseling and other services to the workers.
(2) Workers shall endeavor to maintain and promote their health by utilizing the services provided by the employer as set forth in the preceding paragraph.

Article 70. (Providing Convenience, etc., for Physical Exercise, etc.)

The employer shall also endeavor to take necessary measures for the maintenance and promotion of workers' health such as providing convenience for sports, recreation and other activities in additon to the measures set forth in the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding article.

Article 70-2. (Publication of Guidelines for Maintenance and Promotion of Health, etc.)

(1) The Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare shall publish the guidelines for the measures to be taken by the employer under the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 69 for the maintenance and promotion of workers' health in order for such measures of the employer to be enforced appropriately and effectively.
(2) The Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare may give necessary guidance to employers or their organizations under the guidelines in the preceding paragraph.

Article 70-3. (Harmonization with Health Checkup Guidelines, etc.)

The Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare under paragraph (1) of Article 66, the guidelines under paragraph (2) of Article 66-5, the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare under Article 66-6 and the guidelines under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article shall harmonise with Health Checkup Guidelines, etc., under paragraph (1) of Article 9 of the Health Promotion Act (Act No.103 of 2002)

Article 71. (State Assistance)

(1) In order to ensure the appropriate and effective enforcement of the measures for the maintenance and promotion of the workers' health, the State is to extend necessary assistance such as providing necessary information, promoting the implementation of working environment measurement and medical examination, promoting the sufficiency and competency of instructors concerning health education etc., in workplaces and so forth.
(2) The State shall give special consideration to the small and medium-sized enterprises in providing the assistance set forth in the preceding paragraph.

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Industrial Safety and Health Law Law No. 57 of June 8, 1972 Latest Amendments: Law No. 25 of May 31, 2006 In Japanese Chapter VII. Measures for Maintaining and Promoting Workers' Health Article 64. Deleted Article 65. (Working Environment Measurement) (1) The employer shall, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, conduct necessary working environment measurement in respect to the indoor and other workshops prescribed by Cabinet Order as harmful work operations are performed, and keep the record of the results. (2) The working environment measurement under the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall be carried out in accordance with the standards for working environment measurement provided for by the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare. (3) The Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare shall make public the guidelines for working environment measurement necessary for ensuring the appropriate and effective implementation of the working environment measurement under the provisions of paragraph (1). (4) When it is deemed necessary provided that the guidelines for working environment measurement set forth in the preceding paragraph are made public, the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare may give necessary guidance etc., in connection with the said guidelines for working environment measurement to the employers or working environment measuring institutions or their organizations. (5) Where it is deemed necessary to maintain the health of workers through the improvement of their working environment, the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau may, on basis of opinion of the Medical Advisor in industrial Health, instruct the employer to carry out working environment measurement or take other necessary measures, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Article 65-2. (Assessment etc., of the Results of Working Environment Measurement) (1) When the assessment of results of the working environment measurement under the provisions of paragraph (1) or (5) of the preceding Article indicates the necessity of measures for the maintenance of the health of workers, the employer shall take necessary measures such as providing the necessary facilities or equipment, medical examinations and other necessary measures for the maintenance of the health of workers in accordance with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. (2) The employer, who is to make the assessment set forth in the preceding paragraph, shall make the assessment in accordance with the working environment assessment standard by the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. (3) When the employer has made the assessment of results of the working environment measurement according to the provision of the preceding paragraph, the employer shall keep the record concerning the results of the assessment in accordance with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Article 65-3. (Control of Works) The employer shall endeavor to pay attention to the health of workers and properly control their works. Article 65-4. (Restriction of Working Hours) An employer who is to have the workers engage in the work operations likely to damage the workers' health, such as diving work, and provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, shall not have them work against the standard concerning the working hours provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Article 66. (Medical Examination) (1) The employer shall, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, have medical examinations of workers conducted by a physician. (2) The employer shall, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, have medical examinations on specified items conducted by a physician on the workers engaged in harmful work operations defined by Cabinet Order. The same shall apply to the workers who have engaged in harmful work operations defined by Cabinet Order and are currently in employment. (3) The employer shall, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, have a dentist perform medical examinations on the workers engaged in the harmful work operations defined by Cabinet Order. (4) The Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau may, when it is deemed necessary for maintaining the health of workers, instruct employers on basis of the opinion of the Medical Advisor in Industrial Health and as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, to conduct a special medical examination and other necessary matters. (5) Workers shall undergo the medical examination conducted by the employer under provisions of the preceding paragraphs, provided that this shall not apply in the case where a worker who does not desire to undergo the medical examination by the physician or dentist designated by the employer, submits a document to cerfiy the findings that the said worker has and undergone a medical examination by another physician or dentist equivalent to the medical examination under these provisions to the emplyer. Article 66-2. (Submission of the result of voluntary medical examination by workers) A worker engaged in a work between 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.. (when Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare finds it necessary, 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. for the area or period which designated by Minister; hereinafter reffered to as “night work,”) and whose night work frequency and other matters fall under the requirements provided for in the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare taken into account the maintenance of workers' health, may submit to the employer a document certifying the results of a medical examination (excluding medical examinations in the proviso of paragraph (5) of the preceding Article), as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Article 66-3. (Record of Results of Medical Examinations) The employer shall, according to the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, record the results of medical examinations under the provisions of paragraph (1) to (4) and proviso in paragraph (5) of Article 66, and the preceding Article. Article 66-4. (Hearing of Medical Doctor's Advice on Results of Medical Examination) The employer shall, according to the provisions of the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, hear the opinion of a physician or dentist on necessary measures for maintaining the health of the workers based on the results of medical examinations under the provisions of paragraph (1) through (4) of Article 66, proviso in paragraph (5) and Article 66-2 (limited to the results of the medical examiantions on workers with abnormal findings). Article 66-5. (Measures for following-up the medical examination) (1) The employer shall, by taking into considerarion of the opinion of the physician or dentist under the provisions of the preceding Article, and when it is deemed necessary, take measures including changing the location of work, changing the work content, shortening the working hours or reducing the frequency of night work, along with conducting working environment measurement, installing or improving facilities or equipment, reporting the opinion of the said physician or dentist to the Health Committee or the Safety and Health Committee, or the Committee for the Improvement of Establishing Working Hours, etc. (provided for in paragraph (1) of Article 7 of the Act on Special Measures Concerning the Improvement of Establishing Working Hours, etc. (Act No. 90 of 2002); hereinafter the same), and other appropriate measures, considering circumstances of the said worker. (2) The Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare shall make public necessary guidelines for promoting appropriate and effective implementation of the due measures by employers pursuant to the preceding paragraph. (3) The Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare may, when it is deemed necessary, at the publication of the guidelines prescribed in the preceding paragraph, carried out necessary guidance etc., to employers or their organizations concerning the said guidelines. Article 66-6. (Notification of results of medical examinations) The employer shall, in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, notify a worker who had a medical examination carried out under the provisions of paragraph (1) to (4) of Article 66 of the results of the said medical examination. Article 66-7. (Health Guidance etc.) (1) The employer shall endeavor to give health guidance by a phisician or an health nurse for such workers as are specially deemed necessary to strive to maintain their health according to the results of a medical examination under the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 66 or the said medical examination under the proviso of paragraph (5) of the same article, or a medical examination under the provisions of Article 66-2. (2) The worker endeavor to maintain the health by making use of the notified results of the health examination under the provisions of the preceding article and the health guidance under the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Article 66-8. (Face-to-face guidance etc.) (1) The employer shall, as provided for in the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, provide a face-to-face guidance by a physician (referring to assessing the physical and mental condition of workers through medical interview or other methods and to providing necessary face-to-face guidance in response thereto. The same applies below), to a worker whose working hour or other conditions fall under one of the requirements that are specified, taking into account the workers' health maintenance by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. (2) A worker shall undergo the face-to-face guidance provided by the employer under the provision of the preceding paragraphs, provided that this shall not apply in the case where a worker who does not desire to undergo the face-to-face guidance by the physician designated by the employer, and undergo a face-to-face guidance equivalent to the face-to-face guidance under the same paragraph by another physician and submits a document to certify the findings to the employer. (3) The employer shall, in accordance with the provision of the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, record the results of the face-to-face guidance under the provision of paragraph (1) and the proviso of the preceding paragraph. (4) The employer shall, based on the results of the face-to-face guidance provided for in paragraph (1) or the proviso of the paragraph (1) or proviso paragraph(2), hear the opinions by a physician as to the necessary measures for maintaining the health of the said worker in accordance with the provision of the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. (5) The employer shall, by taking into consideration of the opinion of the physician under the provision of the preceding paragraph, and when it is deemed necessary, take measures including changing the location of work, changing the work contents, shortening the working hours, reducing the frequency of night work or other measures, along with reporting the opinion of said physician to the Health Committee, Safety and Health Committee or Committee for the Improvement of Establishing Working Hours, and other appropriate measures, considering the circumstances of the said worker. Article 66-9. The employer shall endeavor to take necessary measures as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, to workers whose health requires consideration, other than the workers for whom the face-to-face guidance is provided pursuant to the provision of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. Article 67. (Personal Health Record) (1) For the person who meets the requirements provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare among those who have been engaged in work operations as defined by Cabinet Order which are liable to cause cancer or other serious health impairment, the Director of the Prefectural Labor Bureau shall issue a personal health record related to the said work operations at the time of their separation from this service or thereafter; provided that this shall not apply to those already in possession of a personal health record related to said work operations. (2) The Government shall, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, take necessary measures in connection with the medical examination of a person in possession of a personal health record. (3) A person to whom a personal health record was issued shall not transfer or lend the said personal health record to others. (4) The form of a personal health record and other necessary matters related to a personal health record shall be provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Article 68. (Prohibition of Employment of the Sick) The employer shall, as provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, prohibit the placement to work for the workers who have contracted communicable diseases and other diseases provided for by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Article 69. (Health Education, etc.) (1) The employer shall make continuous and systematic efforts for the maintenance and promotion of workers' health by taking necessary measures such as providing health education, health counseling and other services to the workers. (2) Workers shall endeavor to maintain and promote their health by utilizing the services provided by the employer as set forth in the preceding paragraph. Article 70. (Providing Convenience, etc., for Physical Exercise, etc.) The employer shall also endeavor to take necessary measures for the maintenance and promotion of workers' health such as providing convenience for sports, recreation and other activities in additon to the measures set forth in the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding article. Article 70-2. (Publication of Guidelines for Maintenance and Promotion of Health, etc.) (1) The Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare shall publish the guidelines for the measures to be taken by the employer under the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 69 for the maintenance and promotion of workers' health in order for such measures of the employer to be enforced appropriately and effectively. (2) The Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare may give necessary guidance to employers or their organizations under the guidelines in the preceding paragraph. Article 70-3. (Harmonization with Health Checkup Guidelines, etc.) The Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare under paragraph (1) of Article 66, the guidelines under paragraph (2) of Article 66-5, the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare under Article 66-6 and the guidelines under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article shall harmonise with Health Checkup Guidelines, etc., under paragraph (1) of Article 9 of the Health Promotion Act (Act No.103 of 2002) Article 71. (State Assistance) (1) In order to ensure the appropriate and effective enforcement of the measures for the maintenance and promotion of the workers' health, the State is to extend necessary assistance such as providing necessary information, promoting the implementation of working environment measurement and medical examination, promoting the sufficiency and competency of instructors concerning health education etc., in workplaces and so forth. (2) The State shall give special consideration to the small and medium-sized enterprises in providing the assistance set forth in the preceding paragraph. << INDEX Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Section 1 Section 2 Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VII-2 Chapter VIII Chapter IX Section 1 Section 2 Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Supplementary Provisions Appended Table 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 top Home \| Sitemap \| Online OSH Videos \| Disclaimer Copyright (C) 1999- JICOSH All Right Reserved.

Industrial Safety and Health Law Law No. 57 of June 8, 1972

Latest Amendments: Law No. 25 of May 31, 2006