# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第六十八条 (Article 68) - 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: 第六十八条 (Article 68)（病者の就業禁止） — address `art-68` - 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-68 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-68 - 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. --- ### 第六十八条（病者の就業禁止） — (Prohibiting Sick Workers from Working) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-68 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-68 **第一項** 事業者は、伝染性の疾病その他の疾病で、厚生労働省令で定めるものにかかつた労働者については、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、その就業を禁止しなければならない。 art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-68/par-1 An employer, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must prohibit workers who have contracted communicable diseases and other diseases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare from working. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第九十一条第二項（労働基準監督官の権限） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-91/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-91/par-2 - 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 第四十五条第三項（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-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/par-3 - 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 第四十五条第六項（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-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/par-6 --- ## 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