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Enforcement Ordinance of Pneumoconiosis Law

Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 6 of March 31, 1960
Latest Amendments:
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Ordinance No. 2 of January 6, 2001

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Attached Table 1 (Refer to Article 2)

Attached Table (Related to Article 2)

(1) Work at an operations site involving excavation of soil, sand, rocks or minerals (hereinafter referred to as "minerals, etc.") (except wet soil and sand). The work listed below is excluded:

a) Work at an operations site, out of a pit, involving boring by the wet method of minerals, etc.
b) Work at an operations site, in the open air, involving excavation of minerals, etc., without employing motive power or blast.
(2) Work at an operations site involving unloading of minerals, etc. (except wet ones) by tipping or tipping over the rack of a truck loaded with minerals, etc. (except wet ones) (except work listed in item 3, 9 or 18)

(3) Work at an operations site involving cutting, crushing, screening, loading or unloading of minerals, etc., in a pit. Work listed to below is excluded:
a) Work at an operations site involving loading or unloading of wet minerals, etc.
b) Work at an operations site involving cutting, crushing or screening in water.
c) Work at an operations site involving screening, by the use of a sprinkler system.

(4) Work on the conveying of minerals, etc. (except wet ones) in a pit. Work on the driving of a traction engine of trucks loaded with minerals, etc. is excluded.

(5) Work at an operations site involving filling up of excavations with mineral, etc. (except wet ones) or sprinkling dust in a pit.

(5-2) Work of removing, evacuating, checking or repairing machines or electric equipment attached or accumulated with dust in a pit close to the places as provided for in item 1 to 3 and the preceding item.

(6) Work at an operations site involving cutting, chiseling or finishing of rocks or minerals (except work listed in item 13). The work listed below is excluded:
a) Work at an operations site involving cutting or finishing with flames.
b) Work at an operations site involving cutting, chiseling or finishing by the use of sprinklers or an oiling system.

(7) Work at an operations site involving grinding by spraying abrasives or work at an operations site involving grinding or deflashing of rocks, minerals or metals, or cutting of metal by motive power with abrasives (except work listed in the preceding item). Work at an operations site involving grinding or deflashing of rocks, minerals or metals, or cutting of metal, by motive power with abrasives by the use of a sprinkler or an oiling system, is excluded.

(8) Work at an operations site involving cutting, crushing or screening of minerals, etc., raw materials having carbon for their principal element (hereinafter referred to as "carbonic raw material"), or aluminum foil, by motive power (except work listed in item 3, 15 or 19). Work listed below is excluded:
a) Work at an operations site involving cutting, crushing or screening by motive power in the water or oil.
b) Work at an operations site involving screening of minerals, etc., or carbonic raw materials, by motive power, by the use of sprinklers or an oiling system.
c) Work at an operations site involving cutting or crushing of minerals, etc., or carbonic raw materials, by motive power, by the use of a sprinkler or oiling system, in the open air.

(9) Work at an operations site involving drying, packing into bags, loading or unloading of cement, fly-ash, or pulverized ore, carbonic raw materials or carbonic products (except work listed in item 3, 16 or 18).

(10) Work at an operations site involving packing of pulverized aluminum or titanium oxide into bags.

(11) Work at an operations site involving mixing, adding or sprinkling of pulverized ore, carbonic raw materials or any other material containing them in the process of manufacturing or processing products for which pulverized ore or carbonic raw material is used as raw material or material (except work listed in items 12 to 14).

(12) Work at an operations site involving mixing raw material, or supplying a melting furnace with raw material or mixture, in the process of manufacturing glass or enamel. Work at an operations site involving mixing raw materials in water is excluded.

(13) Work at an operations site involving mixing or shaping raw materials, drying raw materials or unfinished products, loading carts with unfinished products or unloading from the carts, finishing or packing unfinished or manufactured products, or work of entering into a kiln, in the process of manufacturing ceramic ware, fire bricks, diatomaceous earthenware or abrasives. Work listed below is excluded:
a) Work at an operations site involving pouring and shaping raw materials, finishing unfinished products before being placed into the kiln, or packing manufactured products, in the process of manufacturing ceramic ware.
b) Work at an operations site involving mixing raw materials in water.

(14) Work at an operations site involving mixing or shaping carbonic raw materials, placing unfinished products into kilns, removing unfinished or manufactured products from kilns or finishing those products, in the process of manufacturing carbonic products. Work at an operations site involving mixing raw materials in water is excluded.

(15) Work at an operations site involving breaking of sand-molds, cleaning of castings, reclaiming of sand, tempering of sand or scraping off of flashes (except work listed in item 7) in the process of manufacturing castings with sand-molds. Work at an operations site involving reuse of sand in the water or oil by the use of a sprinkler or an oiling system is excluded.

(16) Work of scraping off minerals, etc. (except wet ones) or scratching them off in the hatch of a ship which carries minerals, etc (except wet ones).

(17) Work at an operations site involving supplying a blast furnace with soil, sand, ores or minerals, reducing of them, steaming or casting in, in the process of smelting or melting metals or other inorganic material. Work at an operations site involving steaming out of a converter or casting in a metal mold is excluded.

(18) Work at an operations site involving scraping off, scratching up, loading or unloading or putting into vessels slag or ash adhering to or accumulating inside a furnace, flue, chimney, etc., or in the process of the combustion of pulverised ores or in the process of smelting or melting metals or other inorganic material.

(19) Work of building or repairing of kilns, furnaces, etc., with firebricks, or of dismantling or destroying kilns, furnaces, etc., built with firebricks.

(20) Work of cutting metals by means of melting, arc welding of metals or gouging metals with an arc indoors, in a pit or inside of the tank, vessel, pipes or vehicles, etc. Work of cutting automatically by means of melting, or of automatic welding indoors is excluded.

(21) Work at a site of metal spraying operations.

(22) Work at a site of operation involving warehousing of rushes covered with soil for dyeing, taking it out from the warehouse, selecting or regulating it, or weaving with it.

(23) Work at an operations site involving unloading of ballast from hopper cars, or tamping of soil of a road with a multiple-tamper, in a long and large tunnel (designated by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as an extraordinarily long tunnel).

(24) Work at an operations site involving unraveling, compounding, spinning, weaving, spraying, loading or unloading of asbestos, or placing one asbestos product upon another or stitching up, cutting, grinding, finishing or packing of asbestos products.


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