# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第九十七条 (Article 97) - 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: 第九十七条 (Article 97)（申告） — address `art-97` - 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-97 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-97 - 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. --- ### 第九十七条（申告） — Reporting caption: machine translation, not official art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-97 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-97 **第一項** 作業従事者は、事業場にこの法律又はこれに基づく命令の規定に違反する事実があるときは、その事実を都道府県労働局長、労働基準監督署長又は労働基準監督官に申告して是正のため適当な措置をとるように求めることができる。 art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-97/par-1 If there is a factual circumstance in the workplace that violates the provisions of this Act or an order issued under this Act, a person engaged in work may report that factual circumstance to the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau or Chief of the Labour Standard Inspection Offices or to the labor standards inspector and request that appropriate action be taken to rectify it. machine translation, not official **第二項** 事業者は、前項の申告をしたことを理由として、労働者に対し、解雇その他不利益な取扱いをしてはならない。 art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-97/par-2 An employer must not dismiss a worker or otherwise subject a worker to disadvantageous treatment for having a report as referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 注文者、機械等貸与者その他第一項の作業従事者に係る事業を行う者の契約の相手方は、同項の申告をしたことを理由として、当該事業を行う者に対し、取引の停止その他の不利益な取扱いをしてはならない。 art-97/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-97/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-97/par-3 An orderer, lessor of machinery or other such equipment, or any other person that is a counterparty to a contract with a person conducting a business involving a person engaged in work as referred to in paragraph (1) must not subject the person conducting the business to suspension of transactions or other disadvantageous treatment on the grounds that a report as referred to in that paragraph has been made. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-97/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第九十七条第一項 (Article 97, paragraph (1)), art-97/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-97/par-1 - art-97/par-3: 第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第九十七条第一項 (Article 97, paragraph (1)), art-97/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-97/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-97/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第九十七条第二項（申告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-97/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-97/par-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第九十七条第三項（申告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-97/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-97/par-3 - 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 第四十五条第十五項（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-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/par-15 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch industrial-safety-and-health-act-20261017T182624-005, translated 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 労働安全衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17