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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

Update : 2008.03.28

Part I General Rules

Chapter VII License, etc.

Section 1 License

Article 62 (Person Eligible to ObtainLicense)
  • (1) The person eligible to obtain the license set forth in paragraph (1) of Article 12, Article 14 or paragraph (1) of Article 61 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as “license”) shall be the one listed in the right column of the Appended Table corresponding to the type of license listed in the left column of the same Table.
Article 63 (Disqualification for the License)
  • (1) The person prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in item (ii) of paragraph (2) of Article 72 of the Act pertaining to the licenses for the operations chief of gas welding, operations chief of forestry cableway, blasting expert or cargo lifting appliance operator shall be under 18 years of age.
Article 64 (Prohibition of the License Acquisition in Duplicate)
  • (1) A person who has already been obtained any license shall not be allowed to obtain the same license in duplicate. However, this shall not apply to the cases that a person listed in the following each item obtains the license listed in the said each item.
    • (i) A person who has a crane/derrick operator’s license that limits the type of machines that the person is permitted to operate pursuant to the provision of paragraph (1) of Article 224-4 of the Safety Ordinance for Cranes, etc. (the Ordinance of Ministry of Labour No.34 of 1972; hereinafter referred to as the “Crane Ordinance”) to floor-driving cranes (meaning the crane prescribed by item (iii) of Article 223 of the Crane Ordinance, the same shall apply hereinafter): A crane/derrick operator’s license that does not limit the type of machines eligible to operate, or a crane/derrick operator’s license limited the type of machines eligible to operate to cranes pursuant to the provision of paragraph (2) of the same Article.
    • (ii) A person who has a crane/derrick operator’s license limited the type of machines eligible to operate pursuant to the provision of paragraph (2) of Article 224-4 of the Crane Ordinance: A crane/derrick operator’s license that does not limit the type of machines eligible to operate.
Article 65 (Person Prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Set Forth in Paragraph (3) of Article 72 of the Act)
  • (1) The person prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in paragraph (3) of Article 72 of the Act pertaining to the license for blasting experts shall be the one who can not appropriately operate the boring machine, feeder and firing machine, and can not appropriately inspect and treat the connection, charge for misfires and residual gunpowder in carrying out the work pertaining to the said license due to the mental or physical disability.
  • (2) The person prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in paragraph (3) of Article 72 of the Act pertaining to the license for cargo lifting appliance operator shall be the one who can not appropriately carry out necessary operation of the cargo lifting appliance or confirmation of the situation around the cargo lifting appliance in carrying out the work pertaining to the said license due to the mental or physical disability.
  • (3) The person prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in paragraph (3) of Article 72 of the Act pertaining to the license for operations chief of gas welding shall be the one who can not appropriately operate the welding apparatus in carrying out the work pertaining to the said license due to the mental or physical disability.
Article 65-2 (Consideration of Measures, etc., to Cover Disability)
  • (1) The Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau shall, in the case of having found that the applicant for the license for blasting expert, cargo lifting appliance operator, operations chief of gas welding falls under the person prescribed by paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of the preceding Article, and when going to decide whether or not grant the license to the said person, take into account the means covering disability which is utilized by the said person or conditions that the disability is covered or the level of disability is reduced due to the medical treatment which the said person is actually receiving.
Article 65-3 (License with Conditions)
  • (1) The Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau may grant a license for blasting expert or operations chief of gas welding to a person who has mental or physical disability with restrictions of type of work which the said person can operate, and with other necessary conditions concerning the operation.
  • (2) The Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau may grant a license for cargo lifting appliance operator to a person who has mental or physical disability with restrictions of type of cargo lifting appliance, which the said person can operate, and with other necessary conditions concerning the operation.
Article 66 (Revocation, etc., of License)
  • (1) The case prescribed in the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in item (v) of paragraph (2) of Article 74 of the Act shall be as follows:
    • (i) When the fraud at receiving the license examination or other fraud actions are committed;
    • (ii) When having transferred or lent the license to others.
Article 66-2 (Issuance of License)
  • (1) The license shall be granted by issuing a license certificate (Form No.11). In this case, where two or more categories of licenses are granted to a person on the same day, one category of license certificate shall be issued covering all other categories of licenses concerned by stating matters related to the said other categories of licenses.
  • (2) When the license of a different category is to be granted to a person who has already been granted another license, matters pertaining to the previously granted license (excluding the matters pertaining to the lower qualifications than those of the license to be newly issued) shall be stated on the said new license and issued by replacing the previous license.
  • (3) When a person who already has a crane/derrick operator’s license limited the type of machines eligible to operate pursuant to the provision of paragraph (1) of Article 224-4 of the Crane Ordinance to floor-driving cranes is to be granted a crane/derrick operator’s license that does not limit the type of machines eligible to operate or a crane/derrick operator’s license limited the type of machines eligible to operate to cranes pursuant to the provision of paragraph (2) of the same Article, or when a person who already has a crane/derrick operator’s license limited the type of machines eligible to operate pursuant to the provision of the same paragraph to cranes is to be granted a crane/derrick operator’s license that does not limit the type of machines eligible to operate, a certificate for a crane/derrick operator’s license shall be issued in exchange for the certificate the person already has.In this case, when the said person already has a license other than the crane/derrick operator’s license, matters related to the license that the person already has be stated on the certificate for a crane/derrick operator’s license.
Article 66-3 (Application Procedures for Obtaining the License)
  • (1) A person who has passed the license examination and is to receive the license (excluding the one who falls under the next paragraph) shall submit the license application document (Form No.12) for the grant of the license to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau which has implemented the said license examination without delay after having passed the license examination concerned.
  • (2) A person who has passed the license examination which has been implemented by the designated testing institution set forth in Article 75-2 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as “the designated testing institution”) and is to receive the license shall submit the license application document set forth in the preceding paragraph together with the document prescribed by Article 71-2 to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau who exercises jurisdiction over the area where the office of the designated testing institution is located without delay after having passed concerned.
  • (3) A person other than the one who has passed the license examination but who intends to receive a license shall submit the license application document set forth in paragraph (1) to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau who exercises jurisdiction over the area where the said person resides.
Article 67 (Reissuance or Renewal of the License)
  • (1) A person who has issued the license and being actually engaging in or intends to engage in the work related to the said license shall, when having lost or damaged the said license certificate, submit the applications document (Form No.12) for the reissuance of the license to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau who issued the license or to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau having jurisdiction over the district in which the residence of the applicant is located.
  • (2) A person prescribed by the preceding paragraph shall, when having changed the permanent address or the name, submit the application document (Form No.12) for a change of permanent address or name in the license to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau who issued the license concerned or to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau having jurisdiction over the district in which the residence of the applicant is located.
Article 68 (Return of the License)
  • (1) A person who has received a license cancellation punishment pursuant to the provision of Article 74 of the Act shall return the license without delay to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau who has cancelled the said license.
  • (2). The Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau who has received the invalidated license returned from the holder of the license pursuant to the provision of the preceding paragraph shall, in case that matters related to the license other than the one to be cancelled are stated on the said license certificate, delete the matters pertaining to the cancelled license before reissue.
Article 69 (License Examination)
  • (1) The classification of the license examinations prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in paragraph (1) of Article 75 of the Act shall be as follows:
    • (i) License examination for category-l health officer;
    • (i)-2 License examination for category-2 health officer;
    • (ii) License examination for operations chief of work in pressurized chamber ;
    • (iii) License examination for operations chief of gas welding;
    • (iv) License examination for operations chief of forestry cableway;
    • (v) License examination for special class boiler expert;
    • (vi) License examination for class-1 boiler expert;
    • (vii) License examination for class-2 boiler expert;
    • (viii) License examination for operations chief of radiography with X-rays;
    • (viii)-2 License examination for operations chief of radiography with gamma-rays;
    • (ix) License examination for blasting expert;
    • (x) License examination for cargo lifting appliance operator;
    • (xi) License examination for special class boiler welder;
    • (xii) License examination for ordinary class boiler welder;
    • (xiii) License examination for boiler maintenance technician;
    • (xiv) License examination for crane/derrick operator;
    • (xv) License examination for mobile crane operator;
    • (xvi) License examination for diver.
Article 70 (Qualifications for Receiving Examination, Subjects of Examination, etc.)
  • (1) The qualifications and the subjects of examination in license examinations set forth in item (i), (i)-2, (iii), (iv), (ix) and (x) of the preceding Article, and a person who is exempt from some of the subjects of the license examination and subjects which may be exempted pursuant to the provision of paragraph (3) of Article 75 of the Act in these examinations shall be prescribed in Appended Table 5.
Article 71 (Procedures for Receiving Examination)
  • (1) A person who intends to receive the license examination shall submit a license examination application document (Form No.14) to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau (to a designated testing institution for a person who intends to receive a license examination that the designated testing institution is to implement).
Article 71-2 (Notification of Success in the Examination)
  • (1) The Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau or the designated testing institution shall inform in writing a person who have passed the examination of that fact.
Article 72 (Details of License Examination)
  • (1) In addition to what is prescribed by the preceding three Articles, such details necessary for implementing a license examination listed in item (i), (i)-ii, (iii), (iv), (ix) and (x) of Article 69 shall be provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

Section 2 Practical Training

Article 73 Deleted.
Article 74 (Training Subjects)
  • (1) Training subjects of the cargo lifting appliance operation practical training course shall be as follows:
    • (i) Basic operation of cargo lifting appliance.
    • (ii) Applied operation of cargo lifting appliance.
    • (iii) Basic requirement of signaling.
Article 75 (Procedures for Receiving the Practical Training)
  • (1) A person who intends to receive a practical training set forth in paragraph (3) of Article 75 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as “practical training”) shall submit an application document by Form No.15 to a registered training institution set forth in paragraph (3) of Article 77 of the Act where the said training is provided (hereinafter referred to as the “registered training institution”).
Article 76 (Issuance of Practical Training Completion Certificate)
  • (1) The registered training institution that has provided the practical training shall, without delay, issue practical training completion certificates (Form No.16) to a person who has completed said training.
Article 77 (Details of the Practical Training)
  • (1) In addition to what is prescribed by the preceding three Articles, details necessary for implementing a cargo lifting appliance operation practical training course, shall be provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.

Section 3 Skills Training Course

Article 78 Deleted.
Article 79 (Qualifications for Receiving Skill Training Courses and Training Subjects)
  • (1) The qualifications for receiving the skill training courses and training subjects listed in item (1) to (17) and (28) to (35) of Appended Table 18 of the Act shall be as prescribed in Appended Table 6 of this Ordinance.
Article 80 (Procedures for Receiving the Training)
  • (1) A person who intends to receive the skill training course shall submit an application document for receiving the skill training course (Form No.15) to the registered training institution which implements the said training.
Article 81 (Issuance of the Skill Training Course Completion Certificate)
  • (1) The registered training institution, which has implemented the skill training course shall issue skill training course completion certificates (Form No.17) without delay to a person who has completed the said skill training course.
Article 82 (Reissuance, etc., of the Skill Training Course Completion Certificate)
  • (1) A person who has received a skill training course completion certificate and been actually engaging or intends to engage in the work pertaining to the said skill training shall, in the case of loss or damage of the certificate excluding a case prescribed by paragraph (3) below, submit an application document for the reissuance of the skill training course completion certificate (Form No.18) to the registered training institution that issued the certificate, and thereby reacquire the skill training course completion certificate.
  • (2) A person prescribed by the preceding paragraph shall, when having changed the permanent address or, submit an application document for change of the skill training course completion certificate (Form No.18) to the registered training institution that issued the certificate, and thereby revise the certificate excluding a case prescribed by paragraph (3).
  • (3) The person prescribed by preceding paragraph shall, in the case that the registered training institution from which the certificate issued has discontinued the training service (including the case the said registration has been cancelled become invalid) and prescribed in the proviso of paragraph (1) of Article 24 of the Ordinance on Registered Inspection Agency, etc. (Ordinance of the Ministry of Labour No.44 of 1972), and when having lost or damaged the said certificate or changed the permanent address or the name, shall submit an application document for the reissuance of the skill training course completion certificate (Form No.18) to the institution designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as prescribed in the proviso of the same paragraph, and thereby acquire a document that certifies completion of the relevant skill training course.
  • (4) In the case prescribed by the preceding paragraph, when the person who submitted the application for the issuance of the certificate set forth in the same paragraph has completed a skill training course other than those prescribed by the same paragraph, the institution designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may issue the document set forth in the same paragraph that indicates the said person completed the said skill training course, upon receiving information pertaining to the said person’s completion of the said skill training course from the registered training institution that provided the said skill training course.
Article 82-2 (Application of Provisions When Director of Prefectural Labour Bureau Provides Service Relating to Skill Training Courses)
  • (1) In applying the provision of preceding three Articles in the case where the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau provides all or part of the service relating to the skill training courses pursuant to the provision of paragraph (1) of Article 53-2 of the Act as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (3) of Article 77 of the Act, the term “the registered training institution” in Articles 80 and 81 and paragraph (1) and (2) of the preceding Article shall be deemed to be replaced with “the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau or the registered training institution.”
Article 83 (Details of Skill Training Courses)
  • (1) In addition to what is prescribed in Article 79 up to the preceding Article, the matters necessary for implementing skill training courses listed in item (1) to (17) and item (28) to (35) of Appended Table 18 of the Act shall be provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.
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