# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第三十一条の二 (Article 31-2) - 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: 第三十一条の二 (Article 31-2) — address `art-31-2` - 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-31-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-31-2 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条の二 art-31-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-31-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-31-2 **第一項** 化学物質、化学物質を含有する製剤その他の物を製造し、又は取り扱う設備で政令で定めるものの改造その他の厚生労働省令で定める作業に係る仕事の注文者は、当該物について、当該仕事に係る請負人の労働者の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-31-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-31-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-31-2/par-1 The orderer of work a job involving for works specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, such as the alteration of equipment that is used to facilities for the manufactureing or handle aing of substance such as chemical substances, or a preparations containing a chemicals substance, or any other material, and that is specified by Cabinet Order, or of a job involving any other work as specified by Ordinance of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must take the necessary measures, concerning in respect of that substance, or materialsubstances to prevent workers of contractors of the work froman industrial accident among the workers of contractors involved in the relevant jobs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第三十二条第五項（請負人の講ずべき措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-32/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-32/par-5 - 労働安全衛生法 第三十二条第六項（請負人の講ずべき措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-32/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-32/par-6 - 労働安全衛生法 第三十二条第七項（請負人の講ずべき措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-32/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-32/par-7 - 労働安全衛生法 第三十六条第一項（厚生労働省令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-36/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 第四十五条第十五項（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-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/par-15 --- ## 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