# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第十三条 (Article 13) - 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: 第十三条 (Article 13)（産業医等） — address `art-13` - 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-13 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13 - 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. --- ### 第十三条（産業医等） — (Industrial Physicians) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13 **第一項** 事業者は、政令で定める規模の事業場ごとに、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、医師のうちから産業医を選任し、その者に労働者の健康管理その他の厚生労働省令で定める事項（以下「労働者の健康管理等」という。）を行わせなければならない。 art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13/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 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"). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 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。 art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13/par-2 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. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 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。 art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13/par-3 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. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 産業医を選任した事業者は、産業医に対し、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、労働者の労働時間に関する情報その他の産業医が労働者の健康管理等を適切に行うために必要な情報として厚生労働省令で定めるものを提供しなければならない。 art-13/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13/par-4 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. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 産業医は、労働者の健康を確保するため必要があると認めるときは、事業者に対し、労働者の健康管理等について必要な勧告をすることができる。この場合において、事業者は、当該勧告を尊重しなければならない。 art-13/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13/par-5 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. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第六項** 事業者は、前項の勧告を受けたときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該勧告の内容その他の厚生労働省令で定める事項を衛生委員会又は安全衛生委員会に報告しなければならない。 art-13/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13/par-6 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. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-13/par-6: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十三条第五項 (Article 13, paragraph (5)), art-13/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13/par-5 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 出入国管理及び難民認定法第五十五条の十七第一項の規定による医師等職員の兼業等に関する規則 第一条第一項第一号（法第五十五条の十七第一項に規定する内閣官房令・法務省令で定める施設） — https://japanlaw.org/en/immigration-medical-staff-side-work-rules/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/506M60000011002/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第十三条第六項（産業医等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13/par-6 - 労働安全衛生法 第十三条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13-2/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第十三条の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13-2/par-2 - 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 附則第四条第一項（心理的な負担の程度を把握するための検査等に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/suppl-3471-57/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/suppl-3471-57/art-4/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