①If an employer seeks to establish, move, or alter communal housing associated with a business that continuously employs 10 or more workers or communal housing associated with a business that is dangerous or hazardous to one's health and that Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare prescribes, the employer must file with the relevant government agency plans that it has established in accordance with the standards for danger and hazard prevention and related actions that are prescribed by the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare issued pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, no later than 14 days prior to the start of the construction of that communal housing.

②The relevant government agency may suspend the start of construction or order the alteration of plans on finding it to be necessary to do so for the safety and health of the workers.