# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第六十六条の八の二 (Article 66-8-2) - 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: 第六十六条の八の二 (Article 66-8-2) — address `art-66-8-2` - 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-66-8-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第六十六条の八の二 art-66-8-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-2 **第一項** 事業者は、その労働時間が労働者の健康の保持を考慮して厚生労働省令で定める時間を超える労働者（労働基準法第三十六条第十一項に規定する業務に従事する者（同法第四十一条各号に掲げる者及び第六十六条の八の四第一項に規定する者を除く。）に限る。）に対し、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、医師による面接指導を行わなければならない。 art-66-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-2/par-1 An employer, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must have a worker whose working hours exceed the working hours specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in consideration of helping to maintain the health of the worker (but only those who engage in the work prescribed in paragraph (11) of Article 36 of the Labor Standards Act (excluding those who are prescribed in each item of Article 41 of that Act and those who are prescribed in paragraph (1) of Article 66-8-4)) undergo face-to-face guidance by a physician. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "An employer, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must have a worker whose working hours exceed the working hours specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in consideration of helping to maintain the health of the worker (but only those who engage in the work prescribed in paragraph (11) of Article 36 of the Labor Standards Act (excluding those who are prescribed in each paragraph of Article 41 and paragraph (1) of Article 66-8-4 of that Act)) undergo face-to-face guidance by a physician." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3440/tb **第二項** 前条第二項から第五項までの規定は、前項の事業者及び労働者について準用する。この場合において、同条第五項中「作業の転換」とあるのは、「職務内容の変更、有給休暇（労働基準法第三十九条の規定による有給休暇を除く。）の付与」と読み替えるものとする。 art-66-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-2/par-2 The provisions of paragraphs (2) through (5) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to employers and workers as referred to in the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the phrase "changing the work content" in paragraph (5) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "changing the work assignment and granting paid leave (excluding paid leave prescribed in Article 39 of the Labor Standards Act)". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-66-8-2/par-1: 労働基準法第三十六条第十一項 → 労働基準法 第三十六条第十一項 (Article 36, paragraph (11)), art-36/par-11 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-36/par-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-36/par-11 - art-66-8-2/par-1: 同法第四十一条 → 労働基準法 第四十一条 (Article 41), art-41 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-41 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-41 - art-66-8-2/par-1: 第六十六条の八の四第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八の四第一項 (Article 66-8-4, paragraph (1)), art-66-8-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-4/par-1 - art-66-8-2/par-2: 前条第二項から第五項まで → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八第二項 (Article 66-8, paragraph (2)), art-66-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8/par-2 - art-66-8-2/par-2: 前条第二項から第五項まで → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八第三項 (Article 66-8, paragraph (3)), art-66-8/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8/par-3 - art-66-8-2/par-2: 前条第二項から第五項まで → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八第四項 (Article 66-8, paragraph (4)), art-66-8/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8/par-4 - art-66-8-2/par-2: 前条第二項から第五項まで → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八第五項 (Article 66-8, paragraph (5)), art-66-8/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8/par-5 - art-66-8-2/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八の二第一項 (Article 66-8-2, paragraph (1)), art-66-8-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-2/par-1 - art-66-8-2/par-2: 労働基準法第三十九条 → 労働基準法 第三十九条 (Article 39), art-39 — https://japanlaw.org/en/labor-standards-act/art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-39 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八第一項（面接指導等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八の二第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-2/par-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-3/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の九第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-9/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第百五条第一項（健康診断等に関する秘密の保持） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-105/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-105/par-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 - 労働安全衛生法 附則第五条第一項（面接指導に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/suppl-4301-71/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/suppl-4301-71/art-5/par-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-18 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Industrial Safety and Health Act (労働安全衛生法), Article 66-8-2, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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