# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第十二条 (Article 12) - Law: 労働安全衛生法 (Industrial Safety and Health Act), 昭和四十七年法律第五十七号 - English title "Industrial Safety and Health Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十二条 (Article 12)（衛生管理者） — address `art-12` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-12 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十二条（衛生管理者） — (Health Managers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-12 **第一項** 事業者は、政令で定める規模の事業場ごとに、都道府県労働局長の免許を受けた者その他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、当該事業場の業務の区分に応じて、衛生管理者を選任し、その者に第十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。）のうち衛生に係る技術的事項を管理させなければならない。 art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-12/par-1 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 health manager for the category of operations at that workplace, from among persons licensed by the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau or otherwise holding the qualifications specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and have the health manager manage the technical issues related to health that are among the operations set forth in each item of paragraph (1) of Article 10 (excluding operations that constitute the measures set forth in any of the items of paragraph (1) of Article 25-2, if a person in charge of managing technical issues is appointed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条第二項の規定は、衛生管理者について準用する。 art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-12/par-2 The provisions of paragraph (2) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to health managers. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-12/par-1: 第十条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十条第一項 (Article 10, paragraph (1)), art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-10/par-1 - art-12/par-1: 第二十五条の二第二項 → 労働安全衛生法 第二十五条の二第二項 (Article 25-2, paragraph (2)), art-25-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-25-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-25-2/par-2 - art-12/par-1: 同条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第二十五条の二第一項 (Article 25-2, paragraph (1)), art-25-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-25-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-25-2/par-1 - art-12/par-2: 前条第二項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-11/par-2 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 住民基本台帳法 別表第一 — https://japanlaw.org/en/residential-basic-book-act/appdx-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/342AC0000000081/appdx-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第十二条の二第一項（安全衛生推進者等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-12-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-12-2/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第七十二条第一項（免許） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-72/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-72/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第百二十条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-120/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-120/par-1/item-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第百二十条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-120/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-120/par-1/item-2 - 労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律 第四十五条第一項（労働安全衛生法の適用に関する特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/worker-dispatch-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/par-1 - 労働者派遣事業の適正な運営の確保及び派遣労働者の保護等に関する法律 第四十五条第二項（労働安全衛生法の適用に関する特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/worker-dispatch-act/art-45/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 労働安全衛生法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/347AC0000000057/20261001_507AC0000000033), retrieved 2026-10-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Industrial Safety and Health Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3440/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17 - This site's parser, version 209 — 労働安全衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17