(Periodical Inspection by Industrial Physician and Authorization)
Article 15 (1) The industrial physician shall inspect workshops, etc., at least once a month and promptly take the necessary measures to prevent the impairment of workers' health when there should be a risk of harmful effects due to working methods or sanitary conditions of such workshops.
(2) The employer shall grant the industrial physician the authority necessary to perform the duties prescribed by paragraph (1) of the preceding Article.
(Health Care, etc. for Workers in Workplaces Other Than Those Required to Appoint an Industrial Physician)
Article 15-2 (1) A person prescribed by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare set forth in Article 13-2 of the Act shall be an industrial nurse who is on the list of persons with the necessary knowledge to conduct health care, etc., to workers in order that the State implements consultation, information providing, and other supportive activities on the work pertaining to health care, etc. to workers (referred to as "Regional Industrial Health Center Activities" in the next paragraph) which are conducted as the State's supports prescribed by Article 19-3 of the Act and which are entrusted for implementation to a medical association which is a judicial person established pursuant to the provision of Article 34 of the Civil Act (Act No. 89 of 1896) with physicians in a municipal area as its members.
(2) The employer shall, as regards a workplace other than the one covered by the provision of paragraph (1) of Article 13 of the Act, when having a person prescribed by Article 13-2 of the Act conduct all or a part of the health care, etc. for workers, endeavor to appoint a physician prescribed by the same Article who carries out the health care, etc. for workers or to utilize regional industrial health center activities, etc.