# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第八十条 (Article 80) - 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: 第八十条 (Article 80)（安全衛生診断） — address `art-80` - 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-80 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-80 - 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. --- ### 第八十条（安全衛生診断） — (Safety and Health Consultation) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-80 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-80 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-80 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、第七十八条第一項又は第四項の規定による指示をした場合において、専門的な助言を必要とすると認めるときは、当該事業者に対し、労働安全コンサルタント又は労働衛生コンサルタントによる安全又は衛生に係る診断を受け、かつ、特別安全衛生改善計画の作成又は変更について、これらの者の意見を聴くべきことを勧奨することができる。 art-80/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-80/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-80/par-1 Having given the instructions under the provisions of paragraph (1) or (4) of Article 78 and on finding that professional advice is necessary, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may recommend the employer to undergo a safety or health diagnosis by an industrial safety consultant or industrial health consultant, and further to hear the opinions of those professionals on the preparation or modification of the special safety and health improvement plan. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、都道府県労働局長が前条第一項の規定による指示をした場合について準用する。この場合において、前項中「作成又は変更」とあるのは、「作成」と読み替えるものとする。 art-80/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-80/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-80/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis if the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau gives instructions under paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. In such a case, the phrase "preparation or modification" in the preceding paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "preparation". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-80/par-1: 第七十八条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第七十八条第一項 (Article 78, paragraph (1)), art-78/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-78/par-1 - art-80/par-1: 第四項 → 労働安全衛生法 第七十八条第四項 (Article 78, paragraph (4)), art-78/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-78/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-78/par-4 - art-80/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第八十条第一項 (Article 80, paragraph (1)), art-80/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-80/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-80/par-1 - art-80/par-2: 前条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第七十九条第一項 (Article 79, paragraph (1)), art-79/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-79/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第八十条第二項（安全衛生診断） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-80/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-80/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