# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第三条 (Article 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: 第三条 (Article 3)（事業者等の責務） — address `art-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-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-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. 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. --- ### 第三条（事業者等の責務） — (Responsibilities of the Employer) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-3 **第一項** 事業者は、単にこの法律で定める労働災害の防止のための最低基準を守るだけでなく、快適な職場環境の実現と労働条件の改善を通じて職場における労働者の安全と健康を確保するようにしなければならない。また、事業者は、国が実施する労働災害の防止に関する施策に協力するようにしなければならない。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-3/par-1 Not only must an employer comply with the minimum standards for preventing industrial injuries provided for in this Act, but it must also work to ensure the safety and health of workers in the workplace through the creation of a comfortable work environment and the improvement of working conditions. Furthermore, an employer must work to cooperate with government-implemented policies for preventing industrial injuries. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 機械、器具その他の設備を設計し、製造し、若しくは輸入する者、原材料を製造し、若しくは輸入する者又は建設物を建設し、若しくは設計する者は、これらの物の設計、製造、輸入又は建設に際して、これらの物が使用されることによる労働災害の発生の防止に資するように努めなければならない。 art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-3/par-2 A person that designs, manufactures, or imports the machinery, tools, or other equipment; that manufactures or imports raw materials; or that constructs or designs constructions; must endeavor, in designing, manufacturing, importing or constructing them, to contribute to preventing the occurrence of industrial injuries caused by their use. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 建設工事の注文者その他の仕事を他人に請け負わせる者は、施工方法、作業方法、工期、納期等について、安全で衛生的な作業の遂行を損なうおそれのある条件を付さないように配慮しなければならない。 art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-3/par-3 A person, such as an orderer of construction work, that contracts out a job to another person must take care that it does not attach conditions, regarding things such as construction techniques, work methods, the construction period and the delivery date, that could impede the safe and healthy performance of the work. machine translation, not official ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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