# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第二十七条 (Article 27)

- 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: 第二十七条 (Article 27) — address `art-27`
- 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-27
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-27
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### 第二十七条
<sup>art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-27 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-27</sup>

**第一項**  第二十条から第二十五条まで及び第二十五条の二第一項の規定により事業者が講ずべき措置及び前条の規定により労働者及び労働者と同一の場所において仕事の作業に従事する労働者以外の作業従事者が守らなければならない事項は、厚生労働省令で定める。
<sup>art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-27/par-1</sup>
The measures required to be taken by the employer pursuant to the provisions of Articles 20 through 25 and of paragraph (1) of Article 25-2, and the measures required to be observed by workers, and by persons engaged in work, other than workers, who are engaged in work on a job at the same site as workers, pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article are prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  前項の厚生労働省令を定めるに当たつては、公害（環境基本法（平成五年法律第九十一号）第二条第三項に規定する公害をいう。）その他一般公衆の災害で、労働災害と密接に関連するものの防止に関する法令の趣旨に反しないように配慮しなければならない。
<sup>art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-27/par-2</sup>
Consideration must be given, in preparing the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in the preceding paragraph, so as not to run counter to the purport of laws and regulations concerning the prevention of environmental pollution (meaning environmental pollution defined in paragraph (3) of Article 2 of the Basic Act for Environmental Pollution Control (Act No. 91 of 1993)) and other disasters involving the general public that are closely related to industrial injuries.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-27/par-1: 第二十条から第二十五条まで → 労働安全衛生法 第二十条 (Article 20), art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-20
- art-27/par-1: 第二十条から第二十五条まで → 労働安全衛生法 第二十一条 (Article 21), art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-21
- art-27/par-1: 第二十条から第二十五条まで → 労働安全衛生法 第二十二条 (Article 22), art-22 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-22
- art-27/par-1: 第二十条から第二十五条まで → 労働安全衛生法 第二十三条 (Article 23), art-23 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-23
- art-27/par-1: 第二十条から第二十五条まで → 労働安全衛生法 第二十四条 (Article 24), art-24 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-24
- art-27/par-1: 第二十条から第二十五条まで → 労働安全衛生法 第二十五条 (Article 25), art-25 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-25
- art-27/par-1: 第二十五条の二第一項 → 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-27/par-1: 前条 → 労働安全衛生法 第二十六条 (Article 26), art-26 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-26 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-26
- art-27/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第二十七条第一項 (Article 27, paragraph (1)), art-27/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-27/par-1
- art-27/par-2: 環境基本法（平成五年法律第九十一号）第二条第三項 → e-Gov law 405AC0000000091, 第二条第三項 (Article 2, paragraph (3)), art-2/par-3 — not held in this collection

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 労働安全衛生法 第二十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-27/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-27/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

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## 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
