At each workplace of the business type and scale specified by Cabinet Order, an employer must establish a safety committee in order to have it investigate and deliberate on the following particulars and submit its opinion to the employer:
事業者は、政令で定める業種及び規模の事業場ごとに、次の事項を調査審議させ、事業者に対し意見を述べさせるため、安全委員会を設けなければならない。
things related to the strategy that is to form the basis for preventing the endangerment of workers;
労働者の危険を防止するための基本となるべき対策に関すること。
things related to the parts of the safety strategy that concern the causes of industrial injuries and measures to prevent recurrence;
労働災害の原因及び再発防止対策で、安全に係るものに関すること。
material particulars involved in preventing the endangerment of workers, beyond what is set forth in the preceding two items.
A safety committee is composed of the following persons; provided, however, that only one of the committee members constitutes a person as referred to in item (i) (hereinafter referred to as the "item (i) member"):
安全委員会の委員は、次の者をもつて構成する。ただし、第一号の者である委員（以下「第一号の委員」という。）は、一人とする。
the general safety and health manager, or the person that the employer has designated from among persons other than the general safety and health manager who are in charge of comprehensively managing the implementation of the undertaking at the relevant workplace or from among equivalent persons;
総括安全衛生管理者又は総括安全衛生管理者以外の者で当該事業場においてその事業の実施を統括管理するもの若しくはこれに準ずる者のうちから事業者が指名した者
The item (i) member is to be the chairperson of the safety committee.
安全委員会の議長は、第一号の委員がなるものとする。
An employer must designate persons based on the recommendation of a trade union organized by a majority of workers at the relevant workplace, if any, or by a person representing a majority of workers, if there is no such trade union, to constitute half of the committee members other than the item (i) member.
The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply to the extent of any separate provisions in a collective agreement concluded with a trade union organized by a majority of the workers at the relevant workplace.
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