# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第八十九条 (Article 89) - 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: 第八十九条 (Article 89)（厚生労働大臣の審査等） — address `art-89` - 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-89 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89 - 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. --- ### 第八十九条（厚生労働大臣の審査等） — (Investigation by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-89 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、前条第一項から第三項までの規定による届出（次条を除き、以下「届出」という。）があつた計画のうち、高度の技術的検討を要するものについて審査をすることができる。 art-89/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may carry out an investigation for a plan of which the Chief of the Labour Standard Inspection Offices or the minister has received notification under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3) of the preceding Article (except in the following Article, hereinafter referred to as "notification") if it requires an advanced technical examination. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、前項の審査を行なうに当たつては、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、学識経験者の意見をきかなければならない。 art-89/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89/par-2 In carrying out an investigation as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must hear the opinions of persons with relevant knowledge and experience pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、第一項の審査の結果必要があると認めるときは、届出をした事業者に対し、労働災害の防止に関する事項について必要な勧告又は要請をすることができる。 art-89/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89/par-3 On finding it to be necessary as a result of an investigation as referred to in paragraph (1), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may make the necessary recommendations or requests to the employer that submitted the notification regarding particulars that concern the prevention of industrial injuries. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "On finding it to be necessary as a result of an investigation as referred to in the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may make the necessary recommendations or requests to the employer that submitted the notification regarding particulars that concern the prevention of industrial injuries." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3440/tb **第四項** 厚生労働大臣は、前項の勧告又は要請をするに当たつては、あらかじめ、当該届出をした事業者の意見をきかなければならない。 art-89/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89/par-4 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must hear the opinion of the employer that has submitted the relevant notification, in advance, in the making of a recommendation or request as referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 第二項の規定により第一項の計画に関してその意見を求められた学識経験者は、当該計画に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 art-89/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89/par-5 A person with relevant knowledge and experience who has been asked for an opinion on the plan referred to in paragraph (1) pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) must not divulge any secret learned in connection with the plan. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-89/par-1: 前条第一項から第三項まで → 労働安全衛生法 第八十八条第一項 (Article 88, paragraph (1)), art-88/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-88/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-88/par-1 - art-89/par-1: 前条第一項から第三項まで → 労働安全衛生法 第八十八条第二項 (Article 88, paragraph (2)), art-88/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-88/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-88/par-2 - art-89/par-1: 前条第一項から第三項まで → 労働安全衛生法 第八十八条第三項 (Article 88, paragraph (3)), art-88/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-88/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-88/par-3 - art-89/par-1: 次条 → 労働安全衛生法 第八十九条の二 (Article 89-2), art-89-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89-2 - art-89/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第八十九条第一項 (Article 89, paragraph (1)), art-89/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89/par-1 - art-89/par-3: 第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第八十九条第一項 (Article 89, paragraph (1)), art-89/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89/par-1 - art-89/par-4: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第八十九条第三項 (Article 89, paragraph (3)), art-89/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89/par-3 - art-89/par-5: 第二項 → 労働安全衛生法 第八十九条第二項 (Article 89, paragraph (2)), art-89/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89/par-2 - art-89/par-5: 第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第八十九条第一項 (Article 89, paragraph (1)), art-89/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第八十九条第二項（厚生労働大臣の審査等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89/par-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第八十九条第三項（厚生労働大臣の審査等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89/par-3 - 労働安全衛生法 第八十九条第四項（厚生労働大臣の審査等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89/par-4 - 労働安全衛生法 第八十九条第五項（厚生労働大臣の審査等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89/par-5 - 労働安全衛生法 第八十九条の二第一項（都道府県労働局長の審査等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89-2/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第八十九条の二第二項（都道府県労働局長の審査等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-89-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-89-2/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 --- ## 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 89, paragraph (3) — 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