On finding that it is necessary to take comprehensive measures to improve equipment and other things at the workplace in order to prevent an industrial injury (excluding when the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has found the equipment and other things fall under the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article), the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau may instruct the employer, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, to prepare an improvement plan concerning safety and health in the relevant workplace (hereinafter referred to as a "safety and health improvement plan").
The provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to safety and health improvement plans. In such a case, the phrase "paragraph (1)" in those paragraphs is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (1) of the following Article".
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