# Health manager (衛生管理者, えいせいかんりしゃ) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/health-manager. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Group: Institutions, offices and documents - URL: https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/health-manager - In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/health-manager - Written by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-18 A person an employer (事業者) must appoint at each workplace of the size a Cabinet Order (政令) sets, according to the kinds of work done there, from among people licensed by the director of the prefectural labor bureau (都道府県労働局長) or with other qualifications an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) sets, to manage the technical matters of health (衛生) in the work listed in Article 10, paragraph (1) — the measures against danger and harm to health, safety and health education, medical checkups, investigating industrial accidents, and the like (Industrial Safety and Health Act, Article 12, paragraph (1), and Article 10, paragraph (1)). Where it is needed to prevent industrial accidents (労働災害), the director of the labor standards inspection office (労働基準監督署長) may order the employer to appoint more health managers or to dismiss one (Article 12, paragraph (2), and Article 11, paragraph (2)). The employer names some of them as members of the workplace's health committee (衛生委員会) or safety and health committee (安全衛生委員会) (Article 18, paragraph (2), item (ii), and Article 19, paragraph (2), item (ii)), and must try to give them education and training to improve their abilities, or the chance to receive it (Article 19-2, paragraph (1)). Where it is needed to keep an industrial accident from happening again, the director of the prefectural labor bureau may instruct the employer to have the workplace's health manager take a training course (Article 99-2, paragraph (1)). Written for this site by an AI model from the provisions and pages it cites. Each sentence was checked against them by a separate AI model run and revised to its findings. Not reviewed by a lawyer. ## Provisions and sources it draws on - [Industrial Safety and Health Act, Arts. 10, 11, 12, 18, 19, 19-2, 99-2](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/347AC0000000057) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act ## Where the laws use it 1 law in force uses it in this sense, in 8 provisions; there the word opens this explanation. - [Industrial Safety and Health Act (労働安全衛生法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act): 8 provisions, among them [Article 10](https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-10), [Article 12](https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-12), [Article 18](https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-18) ## Related - [Cabinet Order (政令, せいれい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/cabinet-order) - [Ministerial Order (省令, しょうれい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/ministerial-ordinance) - [Director of a labor standards inspection office (労働基準監督署長, ろうどうきじゅんかんとくしょちょう)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/labor-standards-inspection-office-director) - [Director of a prefectural labor bureau (都道府県労働局長, とどうふけんろうどうきょくちょう)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/prefectural-labor-bureau-director) - [Health committee (衛生委員会, えいせいいいんかい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/health-committee) - [Safety and health committee (安全衛生委員会, あんぜんえいせいいいんかい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/safety-and-health-committee) - [General safety and health manager (総括安全衛生管理者, そうかつあんぜんえいせいかんりしゃ)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/general-safety-and-health-manager) --- ## Sources - Explanation: Written for this site with AI (claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-18) - Where it is used, and how often: Worked out by this site from e-Gov's text - English names of the laws: Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3440/tb)