# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第二十四条 (Article 24) - 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: 第二十四条 (Article 24) — address `art-24` - 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-24 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-24 - 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. --- ### 第二十四条 art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-24 **第一項** 事業者は、労働者の作業行動から生ずる労働災害を防止するため必要な措置を講じなければならない。 art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-24/par-1 An employer must take the necessary measures to prevent industrial injuries from arising out of the work activities of workers. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第二十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-26/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第二十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-27/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第二十八条第一項（技術上の指針等の公表等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-28/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第九十八条第一項（使用停止命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-98/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第百十九条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-119/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-119/par-1/item-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 - This site's parser, version 209 — 労働安全衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17