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
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Part I General Rules

Chapter IV Safety and Health Education

Article 35 (Education at the Time of Employment, etc.)

• (1) The employer shall, when having employed a new worker or changed the content of work assigned to a worker, give without delay education to the said worker on items, which are necessary as regards safety and health among the following matters. However, for a worker employed at a workplace falling under the categories of industry listed in item (iii) of Article 2 of the Order, the education on item (i) to (iv) may be omitted:
  • (i) Matters related to danger or toxicity of machines, etc., or raw materials, etc., and matters related to methods of handling thereof.
  • (ii) Matters related to performance of safety devices, harmful substance control devices, or of personal protective equipment and matters related to methods of handling thereof.
  • (iii) Matters related to operation procedures.
  • (iv) Matters related to inspection at the time of commencement of work.
  • (v) Matters related to the causes and prevention of diseases of which workers are susceptible related to the work concerned.
  • (vi) Matters related to housekeeping and maintenance of sanitary conditions.
  • (vii) Matters related to emergency measures and evacuation at the time of an accident.
  • (viii) In addition to what is listed in preceding each item, matters necessary for maintaining safety and health related to the said work.
• (2) The employer may, as regards the workers who are deemed to have sufficient knowledge and skill related to all or part of the matters listed in each item of the preceding paragraph, omit education on the said matters.

Article 36 (Work Necessitating Special Education)

• (1) Dangerous or harmful work prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in paragraph (3) of Article 59 of the Act shall be as follows:
  • (i) Work involving replacement of grinding wheels or their test runs at the time of replacement;
  • (ii) Work involving fitting, removal or adjustment of metal dies of a power-driven press machine (hereinafter referred to as “power press”), or of blades of shearing machines, or of safety devices or safety enclosures of power press or shearing machines;
  • (iii) Work involving welding or cutting of metals by arc welding equipment (hereinafter referred to as “arc welding, etc.”);
  • (iv) Work involving installation, inspection, repairing or operation of charged circuits with high voltage (meaning circuits with voltages exceeding 750 V and 7000 V or less for DC or exceeding 600 V and 7,000 V or less for AC; the same shall apply hereinafter) or charged circuits with super-high voltage (meaning circuits with voltages exceeding 7,000 V) or their supports;the work involving installation or repairing of charged circuits with low voltage (meaning circuits with voltages 750 V or less for DC or 600 V or less for AC) (excluding voltages to the ground are 50 V or less or those for telegraphy or telephone with voltages not high enough to cause the danger of an electric shock); and the work involving operation of switches with exposed charging units in the low-voltage circuits installed in sectioned spaces such as switchboard rooms or substations (excluding voltages to ground are 50 V or less or those for telegraphy or telephone with voltages not high enough to cause the danger of electric shock);
  • (v) Work operating a forklift with a maximum load of less than 1 ton (excluding the case of travelling on the road defined by item (i) of paragraph (1) of Article 2 of the Road Traffic Act (Act No.105 of 1960) (hereinafter referred to as “road”);
  • (v)-2 Work operating a shovel loader or a fork loader with a maximum load of less than 1 ton (excluding the case of travelling on the road);
  • (v)-3 Work operating a transporting vehicle on rough terrain with a maximum loading capacity of less than 1 ton (excluding the case of travelling on the road);
  • (vi) Work operating a cargo lifting appliance with a limited capacity of less than 5 tons;
  • (vii) Work operating a skyline logging cable crane (meaning a yarder, cables, carriers, supports, fittings thereof and designed to lift and carry logs and firewood in the air utilizing power; the same shall apply hereinafter);
  • (viii) Work involving the felling of standing trees with a chest-height diameter of 70 cm or more, felling of standing trees with a chest-height diameter of 20 cm or more and with its center of gravity extremely deviated, felling of trees by such special methods as hang-up cutting, etc., or disposing of trees including a hanging tree with a chest-height diameter of 20 cm or more;
  • (viii)-2 Work utilizing a chain saw for the felling of a standing tree, disposing of a hanging tree, or logging (excluding the work listed in the preceding item);
  • (ix) Work operating a machine listed in item (1), (2), (3) or (6) of Appended Table 7 of the Order with the base machine weight of less than 3 tons, equipped with power-driven system and capable of self-propelling to unspecified places (excluding the case of travelling on the road);
  • (ix)-2 Work operating of a machine listed in item (3) of Appended Table 7 of the Order, those equipped with power-driven system and other than those capable of self-propelling to unspecified places;
  • (ix)-3 Work operating of the working attachment of a machine listed in item (3) of Appended Table 7 of the Order, those equipped with power-driven system and capable of self-propelling to unspecified places (excluding operation in the operator's seaton the body);
  • (x) Work operating a machine listed in item (4) of Appended Table 7 of the Order, those equipped with power-driven system and capable of self-propelling to unspecified places (excluding the case of travelling on the road);
  • (x)-2 Work operating the working attachment of a machine listed in item (5) of Appended Table 7 of the Order;
  • (x)-3 Work operating a boring machines;
  • (x)-4 Work involving adjustment or operation of jack-type lifting machines (meaning machines equipped with multiple holding mechanisms (meaning mechanisms which hold a load by tightening a wire rope, etc.; the same shall apply hereinafter) that lift a load up and down with wire rope, etc., by opening and closing the holding mechanisms alternately to expand and contract the distance between such holding mechanisms using power; the same shall apply hereinafter), in the case of carrying out construction work;
  • (x)-5 Work operating (excluding the case of travelling on the road) a vehicle for work at height (meaning the vehicle set forth in item (iv) of Article 10 of the Order) with the working floor of less than 10m in height (meaning the height set forth in item (iv) of Article 10 of the Order);
  • (xi) Work operating a hoist with power-driven system (excluding electric hoists, air hoists and other hoists pertaining to gondolas);
  • (xii) (Deleted);
  • (xiii) Work involving operation of the machines, etc. (excluding a winching system) listed in item (viii) of paragraph (1) of Article 15 of the Order;
  • (xiv) Work handling a small sized boiler (meaning a small-sized boiler set forth in item (iv) of Article 1 of the Order, hereinafter the same);
  • (xv) Work operating a crane listed as follows (excluding a mobile crane [meaning a mobile crane set forth in item (viii) of Article 1 of the Order, the same shall apply hereinafter]):
    • (a) A crane having a lifting capacity of less than 5 tons;
    • (b) A telpher having a lifting capacity of 5 tons or more;
  • (xvi) Work operating a mobile crane with a lifting capacity of less than 1 ton (excluding the case of travelling on the road);
  • (xvii) Work operating a derrick with a lifting capacity of less than 5 tons;
  • (xviii) Work operating a lift for construction work;
  • (xix) Work involving the sling work for a crane, mobile crane or derrick with a lifting capacity of less than 1 ton;
  • (xx) Work operating a gondola;
  • (xx)- 2 Work operating an air compressor for sending air to a work chamber or man lock;
  • (xxi) Work operating valves or cocks for adjusting the amount of air to be delivered to work chambers pertaining to work in compressed air;
  • (xxii) Work operating valves and cocks for adjusting the amount of fresh air to be delivered to or air to be let out of a man lock;
  • (xxiii) Work operating valves and cocks for adjusting ventilation to diving workers;
  • (xxiv) Work operating a hospital lock;
  • (xxiv)-2 Work pertaining to work in compressed air;
  • (xxv) Work handling tetraalkyl lead, etc., listed in Appended Table 5 of the Order;
  • (xxvi) Work pertaining to the work at the place of an oxygen-deficient danger listed in Appended Table 6 of the Order;
  • (xxvii) Work involving operation, maintenance and repair of special chemical facilities (excluding maintenance work of the class-1 pressure vessels prescribed by item (v) of Article 20 of the Order);
  • (xxviii) Work involving radiography by using X-ray apparatus or gamma-ray irradiation apparatus;
  • (xxviii)-2 Work handling nuclear fuel substances (meaning nuclear fuel substances prescribed by item (ii) of Article 3 of the Atomic Energy Basic Act (Act No.186 of 1955); the same shall apply hereinafter), spent nuclear fuel (meaning spent nuclear fuel prescribed by paragraph (8) of Article 2 of the Act for the Regulations of Nuclear Source Materials, Nuclear Fuel Materials and Reactors (Act No.166 of 1957); the same shall apply hereinafter) or materials contaminated with those substances (including nuclear fission product; the same shall apply hereinafter) in the controlled area (meaning the controlled area prescribed by paragraph (1) of Article 3 of the Ordinance on Prevention of Ionizing Radiation Dangers (Ordinance of the Ministry of Labour No.41 of 1972); the same shall apply hereinafter) such as the processing facilities (meaning the processing facilities prescribed by item (ii) of paragraph (2) of Article 13 of the Act for the Regulations of Nuclear Source Materials, Nuclear Fuel Materials and Reactors (Act No.166 of 1957), the reprocessing facilities (meaning the reprocessing facilities prescribed by item (ii) of paragraph (2) of Article 44 of the same Act) and facilities handling those substances (meaning the facilities prescribed by item (iii) of Article 53 of the same Act (limited to the facilities handling nuclear fuel substances prescribed by Article 41 of the Enforcement Order of the Act for the Regulations of Nuclear Source Materials, Nuclear Fuel Materials and Nuclear Reactors [Cabinet Order No.324 of 1957]);
  • (xxviii)-3 Work handling nuclear fuel substances, spent nuclear fuel or materials contaminated with such substances in the controlled area of nuclear reactor facilities (meaning the facilities prescribed by item (v) of paragraph (2) of Article 23 of the Act for the Regulations of Nuclear Source Materials, Nuclear Fuel Materials and Reactors);
  • (xxix) Work pertaining to the specified dust operation set forth in item (iii) of paragraph (1) of Article 2 of the Ordinance on Prevention of Dangers Due to Dust (Ordinance of the Ministry of Labour No.18 of 1979, hereinafter referred to as the “Dust Ordinance”) not including those jobs falling under the categories of work to be carried out by controlling the dust with oil or water to be supplied from the special equipment as specified in each item of Article 3 of the Dust Ordinance;
  • (xxx) Work pertaining to excavation of tunnel, etc. and its associated work such as muck-carrying work, material-carrying work and concrete placing work of tunnel lining those performed only within the tunnel concerned;
  • (xxxi) Work pertaining to instruction, etc. (meaning setting, altering or confirming the motion sequence, position or velocity of a manipulator for a industrial robot (a machine which is composed of manipulators and memory devices (including variable sequence control units and fixed sequence control units, the same shall apply in this item.) and capable automatically to perform the motions of manipulators such as telescopic, bending/stretching, raising/lowering, right/left, revolving motions, and their combines motions based on the information in the memory device, excluding the one research and development or others provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare), excluding those carried out while the power source of the said industrial robot is cut off, the same shall apply in this item.) for the said industrial robotwithin its movable range (meaning the maximum movable range in which manipulators and other moving parts of the said industrial robot are capable of moving based on the information in the memory device, hereinafter the same shall apply.) and pertaining to the operation of the apparatus for the said instruction, etc. carried out by a co-worker at outside of the movable range in cooperation with the worker who carries out the instruction, etc., within the movable range;
  • (xxxii) Work relating to inspection, repair or adjust (excluding those corresponding to instruction, etc.), or the confirmation of the result of these actions (hereinafter referred to as “inspection, etc.” in this item)(limited to those carried out while the said industrial robot is in operation, the same shall apply in this item.), or relating to the operation of apparatus pertaining to the said inspection, etc. carried out by a co-worker at outside of the movable range in cooperation with the worker who carries out the instruction, etc. within the movable range;
  • (xxxiii) Among work involving the assembly of automobile tires (excluding those for two-wheeled automobiles), the work filling said tires with air using an air compressor;
  • (xxxiv) Work handling soot and dust, burnt ash and other burnt residues in waste incineration facilities that have waste incinerators specified in item (5) of Appended Table 1 of the Enforcement Order of the Act on Special Measures for Prevention of Dioxin, etc. (Cabinet Order No.433 of 1999) (hereinafter referred to as “waste incineration facilities” except for item (v)-3 of Article 90 of this Ordinance) (excluding the work listed in item (xxxvi) below);
  • (xxxv) Work of maintenance and inspection, etc., of equipment such as waste incinerator and dust collector, etc. installed in waste incineration facilities;
  • (xxxvi) Work of dismantling, etc., of the equipment such as waste incinerators and dust collectors, etc., installed in waste incineration facilities, and work handling soot and dust, burnt ash and other burnt residues associated with such work;
  • (xxxvii) Work listed in each item of paragraph (1) of Article 4 of the Ordinance on Prevention of Health Impairment due to Asbestos (the Ordinance of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare No.21 of 2005; hereinafter referred to as the “Asbestos Ordinance”).

Article 37 (Omission of Subject of Special Education Curricula)

• (1) The employer may, for workers who are deemed to have sufficient knowledge and skill in regard to all or part of the curricula of the special education set forth in paragraph (3) of Article 59 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as “special education”), omit whole or a part of subjects of the special education curricula concerned.

Article 38 (Preserving the Record of Special Education)

• (1) The employer shall, when having given special education to workers, record the curricula and names of those who attended the said special education course and preserve the records for three years.

Article 39 (Details of Special Education)

• (1) In addition to what is prescribed by the preceding two Articles and Article 592-7, necessary matters in implementing special education pertaining to the work listed in item (i) to (xiii), (xxvii) and (xxx) to (xxxvi) of Article 36 shall be provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

Article 40 (Education of Foremen, etc.)

• (1) Matters prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in item (iii) of Article 60 of the Act shall be as follows:
  • (i) Matters related to the investigation of the danger or harm, etc., as prescribed in paragraph (1) of Article 28-2 of the Act, and measures to be taken based on the results of the said investigation;
  • (ii) Matters related to measures at the time of abnormalities, etc;
  • (iii) Other matters and actions to be taken by site supervisorin regard to prevention of industrial accidents.
• (2) The education for safety and health set forth in Article 60 of the Act shall be implemented for the matter listed in the left column of the following table and for the hours or longer listed in the corresponding right column of the same table.

  Matter	Hours
  Matters listed in item (i) of Article 60 of the Act (i) Method of deciding work procedures (ii) Method of appropriate arrangement of workers	2 hours
  Matters listed in item (ii) of Article 60 of the Act (i) Method of guidance and education (ii) Method of supervising and instructing during work	2.5 hours
  Matters listed in item (i) of the preceding paragraph (i) Method of investigation of the danger or harm, etc. (ii) Measures to be taken based on the results of the above investigation (iii)Specific method of improvement for equipment, work, etc.	4 hours
  Matters listed in item (ii) of the preceding paragraph (i) Measures to be taken at the time of abnormalities (ii) Measures to be taken at the time of accidents	1.5 hours
  Matters listed in item (iii) of the preceding paragraph (i) Method of maintenance and management of the equipment and work place pertaining to work (ii) Method of maintaining worker interest in, and eliciting ideas from, workers for preventing industrial accidents	2 hours

• (3) The employer may, for a person who is deemed to have sufficient knowledge and skill of all or part of the matters listed in the left column of the table set forth in the preceding paragraph, omit the education concerning the said matters.

Article 40-2 (Publication of Guideline)

• (1) The provision of Article 24 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the publication of the guideline pursuant to the provision of paragraph (2) of Article 60-2 of the Act.

Article 40-3 (Plans of Safety and Health Education at Designated Workplaces, etc., and Reports of Results of Their Implementation)

• (1) The employer shall, as regards designated workplaces or workplaces that the Director of the competent Prefectural Labour Bureau may designate in consideration of the ratio of occurrence of industrial accidents, etc.,establish a definite plan of education for safety and health pursuant to the provision of Article 59 and 60 of the Act.
• (2) The employer set forth in the preceding paragraph shall submit a report by Form No.4-5 to the Chief of the competent Labour Standards Inspection Office by April 30 of each year, notifying the results of safety and health education implemented during the period of April 1 of the preceding year to March 31 of that year pursuant to the provision of Article 59 and 60 of the Act.

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