At each workplace of the scale specified by Cabinet Order, an employer, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must appoint a medical doctor as an industrial physician and have that person provide healthcare to workers and undertake other duties specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (hereinafter referred to as "worker healthcare and related duties").
An industrial physician must be a person who meets the requirements specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare concerning the medical knowledge that a person needs to have in order to undertake worker healthcare and related duties.
産業医は、労働者の健康管理等を行うのに必要な医学に関する知識について厚生労働省令で定める要件を備えた者でなければならない。
An industrial physician must undertake the duties thereof in good faith based on having the medical knowledge needed to undertake worker healthcare and related duties.
産業医は、労働者の健康管理等を行うのに必要な医学に関する知識に基づいて、誠実にその職務を行わなければならない。
An employer that has appointed an industrial physician must provide the industrial physician, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, with information on workers' working hours and other information provided by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare that the industrial physician needs in order to properly undertake worker healthcare and related duties.
On finding it to be necessary to do so in order to ensure the health of a worker, an industrial physician may issue the necessary recommendations regarding worker healthcare and related duties to the employer. In such a case, the employer must respect these recommendations.
Having received a recommendation referred to in the preceding paragraph, an employer must report the substance of the recommendation and other particulars prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to the health committee or safety and health committee pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
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