# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第十六条 (Article 16) - 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: 第十六条 (Article 16)（安全衛生責任者） — address `art-16` - 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-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条（安全衛生責任者） — (Safety and Health Supervisors) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-16 **第一項** 第十五条第一項又は第三項の場合において、これらの規定により統括安全衛生責任者を選任すべき事業者以外の請負人で、当該仕事を自ら行うものは、安全衛生責任者を選任し、その者に統括安全衛生責任者との連絡その他の厚生労働省令で定める事項を行わせなければならない。 art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-16/par-1 In a case as referred to in paragraph (1) or (3) of Article 15, a contractor that does not constitute an employer required to appoint a general safety and health supervisor pursuant to those provisions and that carries out the relevant job itself must appoint a safety and health supervisor and have that person communicate with the general safety and health supervisor and undertake the other things that are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により安全衛生責任者を選任した請負人は、同項の事業者に対し、遅滞なく、その旨を通報しなければならない。 art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-16/par-2 A contractor that has appointed a safety and health supervisor pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph must inform the employer referred to in that paragraph of this without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-16/par-1: 第十五条第一項 → 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-16/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-16/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第十六条第一項 (Article 16, paragraph (1)), art-16/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-16/par-1 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第十六条第二項（安全衛生責任者） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-16/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-16/par-2 - 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 第四十五条第八項（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-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/par-8 --- ## 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