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Enforcement Order of the Industrial Safety and Health Act
Cabinet Order No. 318, August 19, 1972

Amendments:
Cabinet Order No. 331. Oct 20, 2006

Update : 2008.03.25

Article 13 (Machines, etc. Subject to Be in Comformity with Standards or Equipped with Safety Devices Designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare)
  • (1) The pressure vessels prescribed by the Cabinet Order set forth in item (2) of Appended Table 2 of the Act shall be the class-2 pressure vessels (excluding the vessels used on ships subject to the Ship Safety Act, and the vessels subject to the Electric Utility Act, the High Pressure Gas Safety Act or the Gas Utility Act).
  • (2) The class-1 pressure vessels prescribed by the Cabinet Order set forth in item (4) of Appended Table 2 of the Act shall be the small-sized pressure vessel (excluding the vessels used on ships subject to the Ship Safety Act, and the vessels subject to the Electric Utility Act , the High Pressure Gas Safety Act and the Gas Utility Act)
  • (3) The machines, etc. defined by the Cabinet Order set forth in Article 42 of the Act (excluding the case in which the machines, etc., are clear not for domestic use) shall be the machines, etc. listed in followings:
    • (i) Acetylene generators for acetylene welding equipment;
    • (ii) Grinding machines, abrasive wheels and protective covers of the abrasive wheels;
    • (iii) Hand feed planers and their blade guards;
    • (iv) Safety apparatus for acetylene welding equipment or for gas welding equipment using manifold;
    • (v) Live line work equipment (limited to those used for handling live circuits with the DC voltage exceeding 750 V, or the AC voltage exceeding 600 V);
    • (vi) Live line work instruments (limited to those used for handling live circuits with the DC voltage exceeding 750 V, or the AC voltage exceeding 300 V);
    • (vii) Insulating protective equipment (limited to those used for handling live circuits with the voltage to ground exceeding 50 V);
    • (viii) Forklift;
    • (ix) Of construction machines listed in Appended Table 7, those capable of moving themselves to unspecified places by utilizing motive power;
    • (x) Pipe supports, supplementary supports and wing supports for the concrete form shoring;
    • (xi) Members and fittings for the steel pipe scaffolding listed in Appended Table 8;
    • (xii) Suspension chains and frames for hanging scaffolding;
    • (xiii) Plywood scaffolding boards (limited to those made from apitong or kapok plies bonded together with phenol resin, etc.);
    • (xiv) Cranes with a lifting capacity of 0.5 ton or more to less than 3 tons (for stacker cranes, 0.5 ton or more to less than 1 ton );
    • (xv) Mobile cranes with a lifting capacity of 0.5 ton or more to less than 3 tons;
    • (xvi) Derricks with a lifting capacity of0.5 ton or more to less than 2 tons;
    • (xvii) Elevators with a loading capacity of0.25 ton or more to less than 1 ton;
    • (xviii) Lifts for construction work having a guide rail with the height of 10 m or more to less than 18 m;
    • (xix) Light capacity lifts with a loading capacity of 0.25 ton or more.
    • (xx) Hospital locks;
    • (xxi) Diving apparatuses;
    • (xxii) X-ray apparatus having the rated tube voltage measured at the peak value of 10 kV or more (excluding those X-ray apparatus to be assembled at the time of their use for the purpose of research or education of X-ray or X-ray apparatus, and of medical apparatus prescribed in paragraph (4) of Article 2 of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act (Act No. 145 of 1960), those prescribed by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare);
    • (xxiii) Gamma-ray radiation apparatus (excluding those provided for by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare of the medical apparatus prescribed in paragraph (4) of Article 2 of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act;
    • (xxiv) Spinning machines or cotton-carding machines with rotating parts of beaters, cylinders, etc.;
    • (xxv) Of steam boilers and hot water boilers, those listed in (a) to (f) of item (iii) of Article 1 (excluding those used on ships subject to the Ship Safety Act and those subject to the Electric Utility Act)
    • (xxvi) Of the pressure vessels listed in (a) to (d) of item (v) of Article 1, those other than class-1 pressure vessels (excluding those vessels used at a gauge pressure of 0.1 MPa or less with an internal cubic volume of 0.01 m3 or less , and of the product of the maximum operating gauge pressure expressed in MPa and the internal cubic volume expressed in m3 are 0.001 or less, and those vessels used on ships subject to the Ship Safety Act and those vessels subject to the Electric Utility Act, High Pressure Gas Safety Act, Gas Utility Act or the Act on the Securing of Safety and the Optimization of Transaction of Liquefied Petroleum Gas);
    • (xxvii) The vessels containing gases with a pressure exceeding the atmospheric pressure (excluding vessels listed in (a) to (d) of item (v) of Article 1, Class-2 pressure vessels and the acetylene generators listed in item (vii)) with an internal volume exceeding 0.1m3 (excluding those vessels used on ships subject to the Ship Safety Act and those vessels subject to the Electric Utility Act, High Pressure Gas Safety Act or Gas Utility Act);
    • (xxviii) Safety belts (limited to those for protecting workers from danger due to fall).
    • (xxix) Chain saws (limited to those with built-in internal combustion engines and with piston displacements of 40 cm3 or more);
    • (xxx) Shovel loaders;
    • (xxxi) Fork loaders;
    • (xxxii) Straddle carriers;
    • (xxxiii) Transferring vehicles on rough terrain;
    • (xxxiv) Vehicle for work at height with working platform having the height of 2 m or more.
  • (4) The machines, etc. listed in Appended Table 2 of the Act shall not include the machines, etc., which are clear not for domestic use.
  • (5) The machines, etc. listed in the left column of the following table shall not include the machines, etc. listed in the right column of the same table.
    Small-sized boiler listed in item (3) of Appended Table 2 of the Act Small-sized boiler used for a ship subject to the Ship Safety Act or small-sized boiler subject to the Electric Utility Act
    Explosion-proof electric apparatus listed in item (6) of Appended Table 2 of the Act Explosion-proof electric apparatus used for a ship subject to the Ship Safety Act
    Dust respirator listed in item (8) of Appended Table 2 of the Act Dust respirator without filters and disc face plates
    Gas mask listed in item (9) of Appended Table 2 of the Act Gas masks other than those that for halogen gas, organic gas, or other gases prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
    Personal insulating protective device listed in item (13) of Appended Table 2 of the Act Personal insulating protective device applicable to live circuit with DC voltage of 750V or less or AC voltage of 300V or less
    Insulating device listed in item (14) of Appended Table 2 of the Act Insulating device applicable to live circuit with DC voltage of 750V or less or AC voltage of 300V or less
    Safety helmet listed in item (15) of Appended Table 2 of the Act Safety helmet other than those for protecting workers from falling or flying objects or from danger due to fall
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