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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

Appended Table 3 (Related to Article 41)
Division of work Persons who are eligible to engage in the work
Work set forth in item (i) of Article 20 of the Order
  • (i) A person who has obtained a blasting operator's license
  • (ii) A person who is in possession of the explosives handling and safety engineer's license set forth in Article 31 of the Explosives Control Act
  • (iii) A person who has passed any of the examinations for Class A senior safety engineers, Class B senior safety engineers, Class D senior safety engineers, Class A blasting technician, Class B blasting technician, Class A junior surface safety technician, Class D junior surface safety technician, Class A junior pit safety technician, Class B junior pit safety technician and Class D junior pit safety technician conducted in accordance with the provision of the pre-repeal Ordinance on National Examinations for Safety Engineering Personnel (Ministry of International Trade and Industry Ordinance No.72 of 1950, hereinafter referred to as “previous National Examination for Safety Engineering Personnel) pursuant to the provision of Article 2 of the Supplementary Provisions of Enforcement Ordinance of the Mine Safety Act (Ordinance No.96, 2004, Ministry of Economic and Industry)
Work set forth in item (ii) of Article 20 of the Order A person who has obtained a ship lifting appliance operator's license
Of works set forth in item (iii) of Article 20 of the Order, the work other than those listed in the following column A person who has obtained any of the special class boiler operator's, class-1 boiler operator's and class-2 boiler operator's licenses
Of works set forth in item (iii) of Article 20 of the Order, the work handling any of the boilers set forth in (a) to (d) of item (v) of Article 20 of the Order
  • (i) A person who has obtained any of the special class boiler operator's, class-1 boiler operator's and class-2 boiler operator's licenses
  • (ii) A person who has completed the skill training course for operation of boiler
Of works set forth in item (iv) of Article 20 of the Order, the work other than those listed in the following column A person who has obtained a special boiler welder's license
Of works set forth in item (iv) of Article 20 of the Order, the welding work in the case that the portion welded with the thickness of 25 mm or less or in the case of connecting nozzles, flanges, etc. A person who has obtained a special boiler welder's or ordinary boiler welder's license
Work set forth in item (v) of Article 20 of the Order A person who has obtained a boiler maintenance-person's license
Of works set forth in item (vi) of Article 20 of the Order, the work other than those listed in the following column A person who has obtained a crane/derrick operator's license
Of works set forth in item (vi) of Article 20 of the Order, the work that involves the operation of a crane operated by an operator who is staying on floor and moving together with the movement of a lifted load.
  • (i) A person who has obtained a crane/derrick operator's license
  • (ii) A person who has completed a skill training course for operation of floor operated cranes
Of works set forth in item (vii) of Article 20 of the Order the work other than those listed in the following column A person who has obtained a mobile crane operator's license
Of works set forth in item (vii) of Article 20 of the Order, the work that involves operation of a mobile crane with a lifting capacity of less than 5 tons
  • (i) A person who has obtained a mobile crane operator's license
  • (ii) A person who has completed a skill training course for operation of light capacity mobile cranes
Work set forth in item (viii) of Article 20 of the Order A person who has obtained a crane/derrick operator's license
Work set forth in item (ix) of Article 20 of the Order A person who has obtained a diver’s license
Work set forth in item (x) of Article 20 of the Order
  • (i) A person who has obtained the license of an operations chief of gas welding
  • (ii) A person who has completed the skill training course of gas welding
  • (iii) Other persons provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
Work set forth in item (xi) of Article 20 of the Order
  • (i) A person who has completed the skill training course of operation of forklift
  • (ii) A person who has completed the training (excluding the one conducted by correspondence) of the lifting and transporting machine operation-type stevedore course prescribed in the column of training courses of Appended Table 2 of the Enforcement Ordinance on the Human Resources Development and Promotion Act, among the basic training or the ability redeveloping training which are the statutory training of paragraph (1) of Article 27 of the Human Resources Development and Promotion Act, and underwent the training pertaining to a forklift.
  • Other persons provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
Of works set forth in item (xii) of Article 20 of the Order, the work to operate a construction machine listed in item (1) or (2) of Appended Table 7 of the Order
  • (i) A person who has completed the skill training course for the operation of vehicle-type construction machines (for leveling ground, transportation, loading and excavating)
  • (ii) Of a person who has passed the examinations for construction technique using construction machines prescribed by Article 27-3 of the Enforcement Order of the Construction Industry Act (Cabinet Order No.273 of 1956) (excluding those provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare)
  • (iii) A person who has completed the training (excluding the one conducted by correspondence) of the construction machines operation course listed in the column of training courses of Appended Table 4 of the Enforcement Ordinance on the Human Resources Development and Promotion Act, among the basic training or the ability redeveloping training which are the statutory training of paragraph (1) of Article 27 of the Human Resources Development and Promotion Act.
  • (iv) Other persons provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
Of works set forth in item (xii) of Article 20 of the Order, the work operating a construction machine listed in item (3) of Appended Table 7 of the Order
  • (i) A person who has completed the skill training course of the operation of vehicle-type construction machines (for foundations)
  • (ii) A person who has passed the examination for construction technique using construction machines prescribed by Article 27-3 of the Enforcement Order of the Construction Industry Act, (excluding those provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare)
  • (iii) Other persons provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
Of works set forth in item (xii) of Article 20 of the Order, the work operating construction machine listed in item (6) of Appended Table 7 of the Order
  • (i) A person who has completed the skill training course for the operation of vehicle-type construction machines (for demolition)
  • (ii) A person who has passed the examination for construction technique using construction machines prescribed by Article 27-3 of the Enforcement Order for the Construction Industry Act (excluding those provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare)
  • (iii) Other persons provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
Work set forth in item (xiii) of Article 20 of the Order
  • (i) A person who has completed a skill training course for the operation of shovel loaders, etc.
  • (ii) A person who has completed the training (excluding the one conducted by correspondence) of the lifting and transporting machine operation-type stevedore course prescribed in the column of training courses of Appended Table 2 of the Enforcement Ordinance on the Human Resources Development and Promotion Act, among the basic training or the ability redeveloping training which are the statutory training of paragraph (1) of Article 27 of the Human Resources Development and Promotion Act, and underwent the training pertaining to a shovel loaders, etc.
  • (iii) Other persons provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
Work provided by item (xiv) of Article 20 of the Order
  • (i) A person who has completed a skill training course for the operation of transporting vehicle on rough terrain
  • (ii) A person who has passed the examination for construction technique using construction machines prescribed by Article 27-3 of the Enforcement Order for the Construction Industry Act (excluding those provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare)
  • (iii) Other persons provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
Work set forth in item (xv) of Article 20 of the Order
  • (i) A person who has completed a skill training course for the operation of vehicle for work at height
  • (ii) Other persons provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
Work set forth in item (xvi) of Article 20 of the Order
  • (i) A person who has completed a skill training course in slinging
  • (ii) A person who has completed the training (excluding the one conducted by correspondence) of slinger training course listed in the column of training courses of Appended Table 4 of the Enforcement Ordinance on the Human Resources Development and Promotion Act, among the basic training or the ability redeveloping training which are the statutory training of paragraph (1) of the Article 27 of the Human Resources Development and Promotion Act.
  • A person who has completed the training course in slinging listed in the column of training course of Appended Table 4 of the Enforcement Ordinance on the Human Resource Development and Promotion Act as one of the ordinary vocational training courses conforming to paragraph (1) of Article 27 of the Human Resource Development and Promotion Act (excluding those carried out by correspondence)
  • (iii) Other persons provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare
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