# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第六十六条の七 (Article 66-7) - 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: 第六十六条の七 (Article 66-7)（保健指導等） — address `art-66-7` - 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-66-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-7 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条の七（保健指導等） — (Health Guidance) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-66-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-7 **第一項** 事業者は、第六十六条第一項の規定による健康診断若しくは当該健康診断に係る同条第五項ただし書の規定による健康診断又は第六十六条の二の規定による健康診断の結果、特に健康の保持に努める必要があると認める労働者に対し、医師又は保健師による保健指導を行うように努めなければならない。 art-66-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-7/par-1 An employer must endeavor to provide health guidance by a physician or health nurse for workers who are found to be in particular need of efforts to help maintain their health as a result of a medical checkup under the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 66 or a medical checkup under the proviso of paragraph (5) of that Article in connection therewith, or as a result of a medical checkup under the provisions of Article 66-2. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 労働者は、前条の規定により通知された健康診断の結果及び前項の規定による保健指導を利用して、その健康の保持に努めるものとする。 art-66-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-7/par-2 A worker is to endeavor to maintain their health by making use of the results of the medical checkup of which they have been notified pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article and by making use of health guidance under to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-66-7/par-1: 第六十六条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条第一項 (Article 66, paragraph (1)), art-66/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66/par-1 - art-66-7/par-1: 同条第五項 → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条第五項 (Article 66, paragraph (5)), art-66/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66/par-5 - art-66-7/par-1: 第六十六条の二 → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の二 (Article 66-2), art-66-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-2 - art-66-7/par-2: 前条 → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の六 (Article 66-6), art-66-6 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-6 - art-66-7/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の七第一項 (Article 66-7, paragraph (1)), art-66-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-7/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の七第二項（保健指導等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-7/par-2 --- ## 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