# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第十五条の三 (Article 15-3) - 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: 第十五条の三 (Article 15-3)（店社安全衛生管理者） — address `art-15-3` - 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-15-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15-3 - 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. --- ### 第十五条の三（店社安全衛生管理者） — (Office Safety and Health Managers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-15-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-15-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15-3 **第一項** 建設業に属する事業の元方事業者は、その労働者である作業従事者（当該労働者である作業従事者のほか、労働者以外の当該元方事業者に係る作業従事者がある場合には、当該者を含む。）及び関係請負人に係る作業従事者が一の場所（これらの作業従事者の数が厚生労働省令で定める数未満である場所及び第十五条第一項又は第三項の規定により統括安全衛生責任者を選任しなければならない場所を除く。）において作業を行うときは、当該場所において行われる仕事に係る請負契約を締結している事業場ごとに、これらの作業従事者の作業が同一の場所で行われることによつて生ずる労働災害を防止するため、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、店社安全衛生管理者を選任し、その者に、当該事業場で締結している当該請負契約に係る仕事を行う場所における第三十条第一項各号の事項を担当する者に対する指導その他厚生労働省令で定める事項を行わせなければならない。 art-15-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-15-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15-3/par-1 When the persons engaged in work who are the workers of a principal employer with a business undertaking categorized as the construction industry (including, if there are persons engaged in work associated with the principal employer who are not workers in addition to the persons engaged in work who are its workers, those persons) and the persons engaged in work associated with a related contractor carry out work at one site (excluding sites where the number of those persons engaged in work is less than the number specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and locations where a general safety and health supervisor must be appointed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (3) of Article 15), the principal employer must, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, appoint an office safety and health manager from among persons holding the qualifications specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, for each workplace at which it has entered into a contract for work in association with the jobs being done at that site in order to prevent industrial injuries from occurring as a result of the work of those persons engaged in work being carried out at the same site, and have that person give guidance to the person who is in charge of the things referred to in the items of paragraph (1) of Article 30 and undertake the other things that are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare at the site where the job associated with the contract for work it has entered into at that workplace is done. machine translation, not official **第二項** 第三十条第四項の場合において、同項の全ての作業従事者の数が厚生労働省令で定める数以上であるとき（第十五条第一項又は第三項の規定により統括安全衛生責任者を選任しなければならないときを除く。）は、当該指名された事業者で建設業に属する事業の仕事を行うものは、当該場所において行われる仕事に係る請負契約を締結している事業場ごとに、これらの作業従事者に関し、これらの作業従事者の作業が同一の場所で行われることによつて生ずる労働災害を防止するため、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、店社安全衛生管理者を選任し、その者に、当該事業場で締結している当該請負契約に係る仕事を行う場所における第三十条第一項各号の事項を担当する者に対する指導その他厚生労働省令で定める事項を行わせなければならない。この場合においては、当該指名された事業者及び当該指名された事業者以外の事業者については、前項の規定は適用しない。 art-15-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-15-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15-3/par-2 In a case as referred to in paragraph (4) of Article 30, when the number of all the persons engaged in work as referred to in that paragraph is the number specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare or more (excluding when a general safety and health supervisor must be appointed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (3) of Article 15), the designated employer that carries out a job involved in an undertaking categorized as the construction industry must, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, appoint an office safety and health manager from among persons holding the qualifications specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, for each workplace at which it has entered into a contract for work in association with the jobs being done at that site, with regard to those persons engaged in work, in order to prevent industrial injuries from occurring as a result of the work of those persons engaged in work being carried out at the same site, and have that person give guidance to the person who is in charge of the things referred to in the items of paragraph (1) of Article 30 and undertake the other things that are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare at the site where the job associated with the contract for work it has entered into at that workplace is done. In such a case, the provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to the designated employer or any other employer. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-15-3/par-1: 第十五条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15/par-1 - art-15-3/par-1: 第三項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十五条第三項 (Article 15, paragraph (3)), art-15/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15/par-3 - art-15-3/par-1: 第三十条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第三十条第一項 (Article 30, paragraph (1)), art-30/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-30/par-1 - art-15-3/par-2: 第三十条第四項 → 労働安全衛生法 第三十条第四項 (Article 30, paragraph (4)), art-30/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-30/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-30/par-4 - art-15-3/par-2: 第十五条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15/par-1 - art-15-3/par-2: 第三項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十五条第三項 (Article 15, paragraph (3)), art-15/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15/par-3 - art-15-3/par-2: 第三十条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第三十条第一項 (Article 30, paragraph (1)), art-30/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-30/par-1 - art-15-3/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十五条の三第一項 (Article 15-3, paragraph (1)), art-15-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-15-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15-3/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第十五条の三第二項（店社安全衛生管理者） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-15-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15-3/par-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 第四十五条第三項（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-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/par-3 --- ## 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 - claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch industrial-safety-and-health-act-20261017T185616-001, translated 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 労働安全衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17