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
(The Ordinance on Industrial Safety and Health has been enacted based on the Industrial Safety and Health Law (Law No. 57 of 1972) and the Enforcement Order of Industrial Safety and Health Law (Cabinet Order No. 318 of 1972) as mandated below, in order to enforce the said Law.)
Contents
- Chapter I. General Provisions (Article 1)
- Chapter II. Organization for Safety and Health Management
- Section 1. General Safety and Health Manager (Articles 2 to 3-2)
- Section 2. Safety Officer (Articles 4 to 6)
- Section 3. Health Officer (Articles 7 to 12)
- Section 3-2. Safety and Health Promoter and Health Promoter (Articles 12-2 to 12-4)
- Section 4. Industrial Physician, etc. (Articles 13 to 15-2)
- Section 5. Operations Chief (Articles 16 to 18)
- Section 6. Overall Safety and Health Controller, Principal Safety and Health Supervisor, Site Safety and Health Supervisor, and Safety and Health Controller (Articles 18-2 to 20)
- Section 7. Safety Committee and Health Committee, etc. (Articles 21 to 23-2)
- Section 8. Publication of Guidelines (Article 24)
- Section 8-2. Guidelines for Promotion of Voluntary Activities (Article 24-2)
- Chapter II-2. Measures Relating to the Relief and Protection of a Worker (Articles 24-3 to 24-9)
- Chapter II-3. Publication of Technical Guidelines (Article 24-10)
- Chapter II-4. Investigation of Danger or Harm, etc. (Articles 24-11 and 24-12)
- Chapter III. Regulations Concerning Machines, etc., and Dangerous and Harmful Substances
- Section 1. Regulations Concerning Machines, etc. (Articles 25 to 29-2)
- Section 2. Regulations Concerning Dangerous and Harmful Substances (Articles 30 to 34-21)
- Chapter IV. Safety and Health Education (Articles 35 to 40-3)
- Chapter V. Restriction on Employment (Articles 41 to 42)
- Chapter VI. Measures for Maintaining and Promoting Workers’ Health
- Section 1. Working Environment Measurement (Articles 42-2 and 42-3)
- Section 1-2. Medical Examinations (Articles 43 to 52)
- Section 1-3. Face-to-Face Guidance, etc. (Articles 52-2 to 52-8)
- Section 2. Personal Health Record (Articles 53 to 60)
- Section 3. Prohibition of Employment of the Sick (Article 61)
- Section 4. Publication of Guidelines (Article 61-2)
- Chapter VI-2. Measures for the Establishment of a Comfortable Working Environment (Article 61-3)
- Chapter VII. License, etc.
- Section 1. License (Articles 62 to 72)
- Section 2. Practical Training (Articles 73 to 77)
- Section 3. Skills Training Course (Articles 78 to 83)
- Chapter VIII. Safety and Health Improvement Plan (Article 84)
- Chapter IX. Inspection, etc. (Articles 84-2 to 98-3)
- Chapter X. Miscellaneous Provisions (Articles 99 and 100)
- Chapter I. Prevention of Dangers Due to Machines
- Section 1 General Standards (Articles 101 to 111)
- Section 2 Machine Tool (Articles 112 to 121)
- Section 3 Woodworking Machine (Articles 122 to 130)
- Section 4 Press Machine and Shearing Machine (Articles 131 to 137)
- Section 5 Centrifugal Machines (Articles 138 to 141)
- Section 6 Crushing Machine and Mixer (Articles 142 and 143)
- Section 7 Rolling Mills, etc. (Articles 144 to 148)
- Section 8 High Speed Rotating Body (Articles 149 to 150-2)
- Section 9 Industrial Robots (Articles 150-3 to 151)
- Chapter I-2. Material Handling Machine, etc
- Section 1. Vehicle Type Material Handling Machine, etc.
- Subsection 1. General Provisions (Articles 151-2 to 151-15)
- Subsection 2. Forklifts (Articles 151-16 to 151-26)
- Subsection 3. Shovel-Loaders, etc. (Articles 151-27 to 151-35)
- Subsection 4. Straddle Carriers (Articles 151-36 to 151-42)
- Subsection 5. Transporting Vehicle on Rough Terrain (Articles 151- 43 to 151-58)
- Subsection 6. In-yard Transporting Machine (Articles 151-59 to 151-64)
- Subsection 7. Trucks (Articles 151-65 to 151-76)
- Section 2 Conveyors (Articles 151-77 to 151-83)
- Chapter II. Construction Machine
- Section 1 Vehicle-type Construction Machine
- Subsection 1. Structure (Articles 152 and 153)
- Subsection 2. Prevention of Dangers Pertaining to the Use of Vehicle-type Construction Machines (Articles 154 to 166)
- Subsection 3. Periodical Self-inspections, etc. (Articles 167 to 171)
- Subsection 4. Concrete Pump Vehicle (Articles 171-2 and 171-3)
- Subsection 5. Breakers (Article 171-4)
- Section 2. Pile Drivers, Pile Drawers, and Boring Machines (Articles 172 to 194- 3)
- Section 2-2. Jack-Type Lifting Machine (Articles 194-4 to 194-7)
- Section 2-3. Vehicle for Work at Height (Articles 194-8 to 194-28)
- Section 3. Railway Equipment and Hand Cart
- Subsection 1. General Provisions (Article 195)
- Subsection 2. Railway, etc. (Articles 196 to 207)
- Subsection 3. Vehicle (Articles 208 to 214)
- Subsection 4. Winching System (Articles 215 to 218)
- Subsection 5. Prevention of Dangers Pertaining to the Use of Railway Equipment (Articles 219 to 227)
- Subsection 6. Periodical Self-inspections, etc. (Articles 228 to 233)
- Subsection 7. Hand Cart (Articles 234 to 236)
- Chapter III. Concrete Form Shoring
- Section 1. Materials, etc. (Articles 237 to 239)
- Section 2. Measures in the Case of Assembling, etc. (Articles 240 to 247)
- Chapter IV. Prevention of Explosions, Fires, etc.
- Section 1. Prevention of Explosions, Fires, etc., Due to Molten High-Temperature Substances, etc. (Articles 248 to 255)
- Section 2. Handling of Dangerous Substance etc. (Articles 256 to 267)
- Section 3. Chemical Facilities, etc. (Articles 268 to 278)
- Section 4. Control of Fires, etc. (Articles 279 to 292)
- Section 5. Industrial Dryer (Articles 293 to 300)
- Section 6. Acetylene Welding Equipment and Gas Welding Equipment Using Manifold
- Subsection 1. Acetylene Welding Equipment (Articles 301 to 307)
- Subsection 2. Gas Welding Equipment Using Manifold (Articles 308 to 311)
- Subsection 3. Management (Articles 312 to 317)
- Section 7. Blasting Work (Articles 318 to 321)
- Section 7-2. Concrete Breaking Work (Articles 321-2 to 321-4)
- Section 8. Miscellaneous Provisions (Articles 322 to 328-5)
- Chapter V. Prevention of Dangers Due to Electricity
- Section 1. Electric Machine and Appliance (Articles 329 to 335)
- Section 2. Wiring and Movable Electric Cable (Articles 336 to 338)
- Section 3. Power Cut Operation (Articles 339 and 340)
- Section 4. Live Line Operation and Operation Close to Live Line (Articles 341 to 349)
- Section 5. Management (Articles 350 to 353)
- Section 6. Miscellaneous Provisions (Article 354)
- Chapter VI. Prevention of Dangers in Excavating Work, etc.
- Section 1. Open-Cut Excavating Work, etc.
- Subsection 1. Time and Procedure of Excavating Work, etc. (Articles 355 to 367)
- Subsection 2. Shoring (Articles 368 to 375)
- Subsection 3. Operation in Caissons, etc. (Articles 376 to 378)
- Section 2. Construction Work of Tunnels, etc.
- Subsection 1. Investigation, etc. (Articles 379 to 383-5)
- Subsection 1-2. Prevention of Dangers Due to Cave-in, Collapse of Natural Ground, etc. (Articles 384 to 388)
- Subsection 1-3. Prevention of Explosions, Fires, etc. (Articles 389 to 389-6)
- Subsection 1-4. Evacuation, etc. (Articles 389-7 to 389-11)
- Subsection 2. Tunnel Shoring (Articles 390 to 396)
- Subsection 3. Tunnel Concrete Form Shoring (Articles 397 and 398)
- Section 3. Quarrying Work
- Subsection 1. Investigation, Quarrying Work Plan, etc. (Articles 399 to 406)
- Subsection 2. Prevention of Dangers Due to Collapse of Natural Ground, etc. (Articles 407 to 412)
- Subsection 3. Prevention of Dangers Due to Transporting Machine, etc. (Articles 413 to 416)
- Chapter VII. Prevention of Dangers in Material Handling Work, etc.
- Section 1. Freight Handling Work, etc.
- Subsection 1. Loading and Unloading, etc. (Articles 417 to 426)
- Subsection 2. Making and Breaking Stacks of Cargo, etc. (Articles 427 to 448)
- Section 2. Stevedoring Operation
- Subsection 1. Facilities, etc., for Passage (Articles 449 to 454)
- Subsection 2. Loading and Unloading of Cargoes (Articles 455 to 464)
- Subsection 3. Handling of Cargo Lifting Appliance (Articles 465 to 476)
- Chapter VIII. Prevention of Dangers in Tree Felling Operation, etc.
- Section 1. Tree Felling, Logging, etc. (Articles 477 to 484)
- Section 2. Log Conveying Work with Wooden Sleigh and Snow Sledge (Articles 485 to 497)
- Section 3. Skyline Logging Cable Crane and Logging Cableway (Articles 498 to 517)
- Chapter VIII-2. Prevention of Dangers in Erection, etc., of Steel Frame of Buildings, etc. (Articles 517-2 to 517-5)
- Chapter VIII-3. Prevention of Dangers in Installing, etc., of Steel Bridge (Articles 517-6 to 517-10)
- Chapter VIII-4. Prevention of Dangers in Erection, etc., of Wooden Building. (Articles 517-11 to 517-13)
- Chapter VIII-5. Prevention of Dangers in Demolishing, etc., of Concrete Structure (Articles 517-14 to 517-19)
- Chapter VIII-6. Prevention of Dangers in Installing, etc., of Concrete Bridge.(Articles 517-20 to 517-24)
- Chapter IX. Prevention of Dangers Due to Falling, Flying Objects, Collapse, etc.
- Section 1. Prevention of Dangers Due to Falling, etc. (Articles 518 to 533)
- Section 2. Prevention of Dangers Due to Flying Objects and Collapse (Articles 534 to 539)
- Chapter X. Passage, Scaffolding, etc.
- Section 1. Passage, etc. (Articles 540 to 558)
- Section 2. Scaffolding
- Subsection 1. Material, etc. (Articles 559 to 563)
- Subsection 2. Prevention of Dangers in Assembling, etc. of Scaffolding (Articles 564 to 568)
- Subsection 3. Log Scaffolding (Article 569)
- Subsection 4. Steel Pipe Scaffolding (Articles 570 to 573)
- Subsection 5. Hanging Scaffolding (Articles 574 and 575)
- Chapter XI. Working platform (Articles 575-2 to 575-8)
- Chapter XII. Prevention of Dangers Due to Debris Flow (Articles 575-9 to 575-16)
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