# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第十二条の二 (Article 12-2) - 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: 第十二条の二 (Article 12-2)（安全衛生推進者等） — address `art-12-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-12-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-12-2 - 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. 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. --- ### 第十二条の二（安全衛生推進者等） — (Safety and Health Advocates) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-12-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-12-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-12-2 **第一項** 事業者は、第十一条第一項の事業場及び前条第一項の事業場以外の事業場で、厚生労働省令で定める規模のものごとに、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、安全衛生推進者（第十一条第一項の政令で定める業種以外の業種の事業場にあつては、衛生推進者）を選任し、その者に第十条第一項各号の業務（第二十五条の二第二項の規定により技術的事項を管理する者を選任した場合においては、同条第一項各号の措置に該当するものを除くものとし、第十一条第一項の政令で定める業種以外の業種の事業場にあつては、衛生に係る業務に限る。）を担当させなければならない。 art-12-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-12-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-12-2/par-1 At a workplace, other than one as referred to in paragraph (1) of Article 11 and paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, that is of the scale specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, an employer must appoint a safety and health advocate (or a health advocate, for workplaces of a business type other than those specified by Cabinet Order as referred to in paragraph (1) of Article 11) and have that person take charge of the operations referred to in the items of paragraph (1) of Article 10 (excluding operations that constitute the measures referred to in any of the items of paragraph (1) of Article 25-2, if a person in charge of managing technical issues is appointed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article; at a workplace of a business type other than those specific by Cabinet Order as referred to in Article 11, paragraph (1), this is limited to operations involving health). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-12-2/par-1: 第十一条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十一条第一項 (Article 11, paragraph (1)), art-11/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-11/par-1 - art-12-2/par-1: 前条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十二条第一項 (Article 12, paragraph (1)), art-12/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-12/par-1 - art-12-2/par-1: 第十条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十条第一項 (Article 10, paragraph (1)), art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-10/par-1 - art-12-2/par-1: 第二十五条の二第二項 → 労働安全衛生法 第二十五条の二第二項 (Article 25-2, paragraph (2)), art-25-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-25-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-25-2/par-2 - art-12-2/par-1: 同条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第二十五条の二第一項 (Article 25-2, paragraph (1)), art-25-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-25-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-25-2/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 第四十五条第一項（労働安全衛生法の適用に関する特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/worker-dispatch-act/art-45/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/par-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 第四十五条第二項（労働安全衛生法の適用に関する特例等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/worker-dispatch-act/art-45/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/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