# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第六十二条 (Article 62) - 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: 第六十二条 (Article 62)（中高年齢者等についての配慮） — address `art-62` - 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-62 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-62 - 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. --- ### 第六十二条（中高年齢者等についての配慮） — (Considerations Regarding Middle-Aged and Elderly Workers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-62 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-62 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-62 **第一項** 事業者は、中高年齢者その他労働災害の防止上その就業に当たつて特に配慮を必要とする者については、これらの者の心身の条件に応じて適正な配置を行なうように努めなければならない。 art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-62/par-1 For middle-aged, elderly, and other workers with regard to whom particular considerations need to be made in assigning work with a view to preventing industrial injuries, an employer must endeavor to arrange appropriate assignments for these persons based on their physical and mental conditions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## 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 - This site's parser, version 209 — 労働安全衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17