# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第十五条の二 (Article 15-2) - 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: 第十五条の二 (Article 15-2)（元方安全衛生管理者） — address `art-15-2` - 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-15-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十五条の二（元方安全衛生管理者） — (Principal Safety and Health Managers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-15-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-15-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15-2 **第一項** 前条第一項又は第三項の規定により統括安全衛生責任者を選任した事業者で、建設業その他政令で定める業種に属する事業を行うものは、厚生労働省令で定める資格を有する者のうちから、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、元方安全衛生管理者を選任し、その者に第三十条第一項各号の事項のうち技術的事項を管理させなければならない。 art-15-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-15-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15-2/par-1 Pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, an employer that has appointed a general safety and health supervisor pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (3) of the preceding Article and that has a business undertaking categorized as the construction industry or in any other industry specified by Cabinet Order must appoint a principal safety and health manager from among persons holding the qualifications specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and have that person manage the technical issues that are among the things set forth in the items of paragraph (1) of Article 30. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第十一条第二項の規定は、元方安全衛生管理者について準用する。この場合において、同項中「事業者」とあるのは、「当該元方安全衛生管理者を選任した事業者」と読み替えるものとする。 art-15-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-15-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15-2/par-2 The provisions of paragraph (2) of Article 11 apply mutatis mutandis to the principal safety and health manager. In such a case, the term "the employer" in that paragraph is deemed to be replaced with "the employer that has appointed the principal safety and health manager". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-15-2/par-1: 前条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十五条第一項 (Article 15, paragraph (1)), art-15/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15/par-1 - art-15-2/par-1: 第三項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十五条第三項 (Article 15, paragraph (3)), art-15/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-15/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-15/par-3 - art-15-2/par-1: 第三十条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第三十条第一項 (Article 30, paragraph (1)), art-30/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-30/par-1 - art-15-2/par-2: 第十一条第二項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十一条第二項 (Article 11, paragraph (2)), art-11/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-11/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第百二十条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-120/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-120/par-1/item-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第百二十条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-120/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-120/par-1/item-2 - 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/ja/worker-dispatch-act/art-45/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/par-3 --- ## 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