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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Appended Table 5 (Related to Article 70)

1. License Examination for Class-1 Health Officers

Qualifications for candidacy of examination	Subject of Examination	Qualification for exemption from examination subject	Subjects that may be exempted from examination
(i) A person who has graduated from a university or a technical college accredited under the School Education Act, and has business experiences having engaged in the field of the occupational health for one year or longer thereafter. (ii) A person who has graduated from a senior high school or a secondary school accredited under the School Education Act, and has business experiences having engaged in the field of the occupational health for three years or longer. (iii) A person who has obtained the certificate of competency for health officersset forth in paragraph (3) of Article 82-2 of the Seamen Act (Act No.100 of 1947), and has business experiences having engaged in the field of occupational health for one year or longer thereafter. (iv) Other persons provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.	Subject of academic test (a) Occupational health (b) Occupational physiology (c) Related legislation	(i) A person listed in item (iii) of the column of the qualification for the candidacy of examination. (ii) A person who has obtained the class-2 health officer's license.	Occupational physiology

1-2. License Examination for Class-2 Health Officers

Qualification for candidacy of examination	Subject of examination	Qualification for exemption from examination subject	Subjects that may be exempted from examination
(i) A person who has graduated from a university or a technical college accredited under the School Education Act, and has business experiences having engaged in the field of the occupational health work for one year or longer thereafter. (ii) A person who has graduated from a senior high school or a secondary school accredited under the School Education Act, and has business experiences having engaged in the field of the occupational health work for three years or longer thereafter. (iii) A person who has obtained the certificate of competency of health officers set forth in paragraph (3) of Article 82-2 of the Seamen Act, and has business experiences having engaged in the field of the occupational health for one year or longer thereafter. (iv) Other persons provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.	Subject of academic test (a) Occupational health (b) Occupational physiology (c) Related legislation	A person listed in item (iii) of the column of the qualification for the candidacy of the examination.	Occupational physiology

2. License Examination for Operations Chief of Gas Welding

Qualifications for candidacy for examination	Subject of examination	Qualification for exemption from examination subject	Subjects that may be exempted from examination
(i) A person who has completed a skill training course for gas welding, and has experiences having engaged in work of gas welding, etc., for three years or longer thereafter. (ii) A person who majored in and graduated from a course relating to welding of a university or a technical college accredited under the School Education Act. (iii) A person who majored in and graduated from a course relating to engineering or chemistry of a university or a technical college accredited under the School Education Act, and has experiences having engaged in gas welding work for one year or longer thereafter. (iv) A person who has obtained the vocational training instructors' licenses pertaining to type of occupation of courses plastic processing, ironwork for steel structures and piping listed in the column of type of license in Appended Table 11 of the Enforcement Ordinance of the Human Resource Development and Promotion Act among the licenses set forth in paragraph (1) of Article 28 of the Human Resource Development and Promotion Act. (v) A person who has completed the metal processing course listed in the column of the training course of Appended Table 2 of the Enforcement Ordinance of the Human Resource 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 has experiences having engaged in gas welding, etc., for two years or longer thereafter. 6. A person who has passed the class-1 or class-2 trade skill test pertaining to ironwork, panel beating and sheet metal work or piping work, among the type of skill test listed in Appended Table to the Enforcement Order of the Human Resource Development and Promotion Act (Cabinet Order No.258 of 1960), and has experiences having engaged in the work gas welding, etc., for one year or longer thereafter. 7. A person who has passed an examination for welding technician based on Ordinance on National Examinations for Safety Engineering Personnel the Ordinance for National Examinations for Safety Engineering Personnel, and has experiences having engaged in the work gas welding, etc., for one year or longer thereafter. 8. Other persons provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare	Subject of academic test (a) Knowledge of acetylene welding equipment and gas welding equipment using manifolds (b) Knowledge of acetylene and other flammable gases, carbide and oxygen (c) Knowledge of the work gas welding, etc. (d) Related legislation	A person listed in item (ii) to (vi) of the column of the qualification for candidacy for examination (for a person listed in item (vi), limited to a person who has passed the class-1 skill examination.)	(i) Knowledge of acetylene welding equipment and gas welding equipment using manifolds (ii) Knowledge of acetylene and other flammable gases, carbide and oxygen

3. License Examination for Operations Chief of Forestry Cable Way

Qualifications for candidacy for examination	Subject of examination	Qualification for exemption from examination subject	Subjects that may be exempted from examination
A person who has experiences having engaged in forestry cableway operation work for three years or longer.	Subject of academic test (a) Knowledge of skyline logging cable cranes and logging cableways (b) Knowledge of forestry cableway operation (c) Knowledge of dynamics required for forestry cableway operation (d) Related legislation	A person who has completed and graduated from a courses related to dynamics of a university, a technical college, a senior high school or a secondary school accredited under the School Education Act	Knowledge of dynamics required for forestry cableway operation

4. License Examination for Blasting Experts

Qualifications for candidacy for examination	Subject of examination	Qualification for exemption from examination subject.	Subjects that may be exempted from examination
(i) A person who has majored in and graduated from a courses related to applied chemistry, mine engineering or civil engineering of a university, a technical college, a senior high school or a secondary school accredited under the School Education Act, and has completed an practical training of blasting work for three months or longer thereafter. (ii) A person who has experiences having engaged in the work of assistant blasting operation for six months or longer. (iii) A person who has completed practical training in blasting provided by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.	Subject of academic test (a) Knowledge of explosives (b) Handling of explosives (c) Method of blasting

5. License examination for Cargo Lifting Appliance Operators

Qualifications for candidacy for examination	Subject of examination	Qualification for exemption from examination subject	Subjects that maybe exempted from examination
	(i) Subject of academic test (a) Knowledge of cargo lifting appliance (b) Knowledge of prime movers and electricity (c) Knowledge of dynamics required for operating cargo lifting appliance (d) Related legislation (ii) Practical skilltest (a) Operation of cargo lifting appliance b. Signals for operating cargo lifting appliance	A person who has obtained the crane/derrick operator’s license or mobile crane operator's license	(i) The following subjects in the academic test (a) Knowledge of prime movers and electricity (b) Knowledge of dynamics required for operating cargo lifting appliance (ii) In the practical skill test, signals for operating cargo lifting appliance
		A person who has completed the practical training course for the cargo lifting appliance operation, and not has elapsed one year from the day of the completion.	Whole of the subjects in the practical skill test
		A person who has completed a practical training course for floor-operated crane operation, mobile crane operation or slinging operation.	Practical skill test concerning the signaling for operating cargo lifting appliance.
		(i) A person who has passed the academic test in the previous license examination for cargo lifting appliance operator conducted by the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau. (ii) A person who has passed the academic test of the license examination for cargo lifting appliance operator conducted by the designated examination agency, and not has elapsed one year from the day of the completion. .	Whole of the subjects in the academic test.

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