If an employer is required to establish a safety committee and a health committee pursuant to the provisions of Article 17 and the preceding Article, it may set in place a safety and health committee instead of setting in place each of those separate committees.
A safety and health 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):
安全衛生委員会の委員は、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
persons that the employer has designated from among safety managers and health managers;
安全管理者及び衛生管理者のうちから事業者が指名した者
An employer may designate a worker at the relevant workplace who is an expert in work environment monitoring and is implementing the measurement of the work environment, as a member of the safety and health committee.
The provisions of paragraphs (3) through (5) of Article 17 apply mutatis mutandis to the safety and health committee. In such a case, the phrase "item (i) member" in paragraphs (3) and (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "a member who is a person mentioned in item (i) of paragraph (2) of Article 19".
第十七条第三項から第五項までの規定は、安全衛生委員会について準用する。この場合において、同条第三項及び第四項中「第一号の委員」とあるのは、「第十九条第二項第一号の者である委員」と読み替えるものとする。
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