# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第十三条の二 (Article 13-2) - 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: 第十三条の二 (Article 13-2) — address `art-13-2` - 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-13-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13-2 - 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. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十三条の二 art-13-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13-2 **第一項** 事業者は、前条第一項の事業場以外の事業場については、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を有する医師その他厚生労働省令で定める者に労働者の健康管理等の全部又は一部を行わせるように努めなければならない。 art-13-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13-2/par-1 An employer must endeavor to have a physician having the medical knowledge that a person needs to have in order to undertake worker healthcare and related duties or a person specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare undertake all or a part of the worker healthcare and related duties at a workplace other than one as referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前条第四項の規定は、前項に規定する者に労働者の健康管理等の全部又は一部を行わせる事業者について準用する。この場合において、同条第四項中「提供しなければ」とあるのは、「提供するように努めなければ」と読み替えるものとする。 art-13-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13-2/par-2 The provisions of paragraph (4) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to an employer that has a person as prescribed in the preceding paragraph undertake all or a part of worker healthcare and related duties. In such a case, the phrase "must provide" in paragraph (4) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "must endeavor to provide". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-13-2/par-1: 前条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), 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 - art-13-2/par-2: 前条第四項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十三条第四項 (Article 13, paragraph (4)), 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 - art-13-2/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十三条の二第一項 (Article 13-2, paragraph (1)), art-13-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13-2/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 第十三条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-13-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-13-3/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第十九条の三第一項（国の援助） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-19-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-19-3/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第百一条第三項（法令等の周知） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-101/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-101/par-3 - 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