At each workplace of the business type and scale specified by Cabinet Order, an employer, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must appoint a safety manager from among persons holding the qualifications specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and have the safety manager manage the technical issues related to safety that are among the operations set forth in each item of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article (excluding operations that constitute the measures referred to in any of the items of paragraph (1) of the Article 25-2, if a person in charge of managing technical issues is appointed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article).
事業者は、政令で定める業種及び規模の事業場ごとに、厚生労働省令で定める資格を有する者のうちから、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、安全管理者を選任し、その者に前条第一項各号の業務(第二十五条の二第二項の規定により技術的事項を管理する者を選任した場合においては、同条第一項各号の措置に該当するものを除く。)のうち安全に係る技術的事項を管理させなければならない。
On finding it to be necessary to do so in order to prevent an industrial injury, the Chief of the Labour Standard Inspection Offices may order an employer to increase the number of safety managers or dismiss the current safety manager.
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