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Ordinance on Industrial Safety Consultants and Industrial Health Consultants
Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 3 March 24, 1973

Latest Amendments:
Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 41 of October 31, 2000
In Japanese

Chapter I.  Examination

Section 2. Industrial Health Consultant Examination

(Classification of Examinations)

Article 10.  Classifications are to be provided by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Ordinance based on paragraph 2 of Article 82 of the Law, which is applied mutatis mutandis in paragraph 2 of Article 83 of the Law, are as follows:

  1. Health preservation
  2. Industrial hygiene engineering
(Qualifications of Candidacy for examination)

Article 11.  Applicants to be determined by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Ordinance based on item 3 of paragraph 3 of Article 82 of the Law, which is applied mutatis mutandis in paragraph 2 of Article 83 of the Law are as follows:

  1. A person who graduated from a high school or a secondary school accredited by the School Education Law completing formal subjects of science and who possesses experience in health fields of 10 years or longer.
  2. A person who passed the national examination for medical practitioners (hereinafter referred to as "successful applicant of national examination for medical practitioners") provided in Article 9 of the Medical Law (Law No. 201, 1948).
  3. A person who passed the national examination for dental practitioners (hereinafter referred to as "successful applicant of national examination for dental practitioners") provided in Article 9 of Dental law (Law No. 202, 1948).
  4. A pharmacist.
  5. A person who has engaged in work as a district nurse defined in Article 2 of District Nurse and Midwife Law (Law No. 203, 1948) for at least 10 years.
  6. A successful applicant of the examination for consultant engineers.
  7. A successful applicant of the first class architect examination.
  8. A licensed industrial hygiene engineering-health officer among the health officers defined by paragraph 1 of Article 12 of the Law, who has engaged in management concerning industrial hygiene engineering in the technical items related to health among the types of work listed in each item of paragraph 1 of Article 10 of the Law for at least 3 years.
  9. A person who has engaged in his duty for at least 10 years as a health officer, defined by the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 10 of the Law.
    1. A person who has obtained registration under Article 7 of Working Environment Measurement Law (Law No. 28, 1975), and has been engaging in the work as a working environment measurement expert for at least 3 years.
  10. A person who has completed the training course assigned by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and engaged in a job related to health for at least 15 years.
  11. A person determined by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in addition to the persons listed in the preceding items.
(Written Examination)
  1. Article 12.  The written examination for the industrial health consultant examination (hereinafter referred to as "examination" in this Section) will be held concerning the subjects in the right column of the following table according to classification of examination in the left column of the same table:
    Classification of examination Subjects
    Health preservation
    1. Industrial health (general)
    2. Related laws and ordinances on industrial health.
    3. Health preservation
    Industrial hygiene engineering
    1. Industrial health (general)
    2. Related laws and ordinances on industrial health.
    3. Industrial hygiene engineering.
  2. Coverage of the subjects listed in the right column of the table of preceding paragraph is as shown in the following table:
    Industrial health (general) Outline of industrial health. Outline of industrial physiology. Outline of management of the working environment. Outline of work management. Personal protective equipment related to industrial health. Industrial health education. Investigation of industrial accidents and analysis of their causes. Outline of safety management.
    Related laws and ordinances on industrial health Those items concerning industrial health in Industrial Safety and Health Law, Working Environment Measurement Law (Law No. 28, 1975), Pneumoconiosis Law (Law No. 30, 1960) and ordinances based on the preceding Laws.
    Health preservation Industrial physiology. Industrial psychology.Industrial health (including harmful object metabolism). Medical examination. Management methods for the working environment. Management of operating methods. Health maintenance and improvement measures. First aid.
    Industrial hygiene engineering Control techniques of working environments related to raw materials, gas, vapour, dust, radiation, temperature, humidity, illumination, supersonic waves, noise, vibration, etc.

(Partial Exemption of the Written Examination)

  1. Article 13.  Qualified persons defined by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Ordinance based on paragraph 4 of Article 82 of the Law, which is applied mutatis mutandis in paragraph 2 of Article 83 of the Law are those in the left column in the following table. The written examination is exempted for those regarding subjects in the right column of the said table according to classifications of examinations listed in the middle column of the said table:
    Qualified persons Classification of examination Subject
    Successful applicant for the National Examination of Medical Practitioners or National Examination of Dental Practitioners Person who completed the training course assigned by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare Health preservation All subjects
    Others Health preservation Industrial health (general)
    Health preservation
    Pharmacist Health preservation Industrial health (general)
    Person defined in item 5 of Article 11 Health preservation ndustrial health (general)
    Successful applications for the consultant engineer examination, who passed the second examination concerning the industrial hygiene engineering field Industrial hygiene engineering Industrial hygiene engineering
    Working environment measurement expert Industrial hygiene engineering Industrial hygiene engineering Industrial health (general) and related laws and ordinances on industrial health.
  2. Qualified persons defined by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Ordinance based on paragraph 4 of Article 82 of the Law, which is applied mutatis mutandis in paragraph 2 of Article 83 of the Law are those determined by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare separately from among those who fall under item 11 of Article 11 in addition to ones listed in the left column of the table as provided in the preceding paragraph. To those persons, the written examination is exempted entirely or partially according to the provisions established by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare separately.
(Oral Examination)
  1. Article 14.  An oral examination is applied to those who passed the written examination and to those to whom the entire written examination is exempted under the provisions of the preceding Article.
  2. Subjects of the oral examination are defined as those in the right column of the following table according to classification of examinations listed in the left column of the said table.
    Classification of examination Subjects
    Health preservation
    1. Industrial health (general)
    2. Health management
    Industrial hygiene engineering
    1. Industrial health (general)
    2. Industrial hygiene engineering
  3. The provision of paragraph 2 of Article 12 shall be applied mutatis mutandis in the oral examination. In this case, description of "preceding paragraph" in the said paragraph is to be read as "paragraph 2 of Article 14."
(Execution of Examinations)

Article 15.  he provisions of Articles 6 through 9 shall be applied mutatis mutandis in examinations.

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