Industrial Safety and Health Law
Law No. 57 of June 8, 1972
Latest Amendments:
Law No. 25 of May 31, 2006
In Japanese
Up date:2008.02.15
Chapter I. General Provisions
Article 1. (Purpose)
• The purpose of this Act is to secure, in conjunction with the Labor Standards Act (Act No. 49 of 1947), the safety and health of workers in workplaces, as well as to facilitate the establishment of comfortable working environment, by promoting comprehensive and systematic countermeasures concerning the prevention of industrial accidents, such as taking measures for the establishment of standards for hazard prevention, clarifying the safety and health management responsibility and the promotion of voluntary activities with a view to preventing industrial accidents
Article 2. (Definitions)
• For the purpose of this Act, the terms listed in the following items shall be defined as follows:
o (i) "industrial accident" shall be defined as a case in which a worker is injured, contracts a disease or is killed due to causes attributable to buildings, facilities, raw materials, gases, vapors, dusts, etc., in or with which he is employed, or as a result of his work actions or attending to his duties;
o (ii) "worker" shall be defined as in Article 9 of the Labor Standards Act (excluding a person who is employed at an undertaking or office at which