Safety manager

A person an employer (事業者) must appoint at each workplace in the industries and of the size a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, from among people with the qualifications an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) sets, to manage the technical matters of safety in the work listed in Article 10, paragraph (1) — the measures against danger and harm to health, safety and health education, medical checkups, investigating industrial accidents, and the like (Industrial Safety and Health Act, Article 11, paragraph (1), and Article 10, paragraph (1)). Where it is needed to prevent industrial accidents (労働災害), the director of the labor standards inspection office (労働基準監督署長) may order the employer to appoint more safety managers or to dismiss one (Article 11, paragraph (2)). The employer names some of them as members of the workplace's safety committee (安全委員会) or safety and health committee (安全衛生委員会) (Article 17, paragraph (2), item (ii), and Article 19, paragraph (2), item (ii)), and must try to give them education and training to improve their abilities, or the chance to receive it (Article 19-2, paragraph (1)). Where it is needed to keep an industrial accident from happening again, the director of the prefectural labor bureau (都道府県労働局長) may instruct the employer to have the workplace's safety manager take a training course (Article 99-2, paragraph (1)).