# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第三十三条 (Article 33)

- 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: 第三十三条 (Article 33)（機械等貸与者等の講ずべき措置等） — address `art-33`
- 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-33
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-33
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### 第三十三条（機械等貸与者等の講ずべき措置等） — (Measures to Be Taken by Lessors of Machinery and Other Such Equipment)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-33 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-33</sup>

**第一項**  機械等で、政令で定めるものを事業を行う者に貸与する者で、厚生労働省令で定めるもの（以下「機械等貸与者」という。）は、当該機械等の貸与を受けた事業を行う者の事業場における当該機械等によ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。
<sup>art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-33/par-1</sup>
A person that leases out the machinery or other such equipment that is specified by Cabinet Order to a person conducting a business, and that is specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (hereinafter referred to as a "lessor of machinery or other such equipment") must take the necessary measures to prevent industrial injuries due to leased machinery or other such equipment at the workplace of the person conducting a business that rents that machinery or other such equipment.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

**第二項**  機械等貸与者から機械等の貸与を受けた者は、当該機械等を操作する者がその使用する労働者でないときは、当該機械等の操作によ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。
<sup>art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-33/par-2</sup>
A person that rents machinery or other such equipment from a lessor of machinery or other such equipment must take the necessary measures to prevent industrial injuries due to the operation of the machinery or other such equipment, if the operator of the machinery or other such equipment is not a worker employed thereby.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**第三項**  前項の機械等を操作する者は、機械等の貸与を受けた者が同項の規定により講ずる措置に応じて、必要な事項を守らなければならない。
<sup>art-33/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-33/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-33/par-3</sup>
A worker that operates machinery or other such equipment as referred to in the preceding paragraph must observe the necessary rules in accordance with the measures that the person renting the machinery or other such equipment takes pursuant to the provisions of that paragraph.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-33/par-3: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第三十三条第二項 (Article 33, paragraph (2)), art-33/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-33/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-33/par-2

## Cited by

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

- 労働安全衛生法 第三十三条第三項（機械等貸与者等の講ずべき措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-33/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-33/par-3
- 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
- 労働安全衛生法 第百二十条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-120/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-120/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

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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-20261017T185616-002, 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
