# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第二十三条 (Article 23) - 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: 第二十三条 (Article 23) — address `art-23` - 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-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条 art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-23 **第一項** 事業者は、労働者を就業させる建設物その他の作業場について、通路、床面、階段等の保全並びに換気、採光、照明、保温、防湿、休養、避難及び清潔に必要な措置その他労働者の健康、風紀及び生命の保持のため必要な措置を講じなければならない。 art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-23/par-1 As regards the constructions and other workspaces where workers are engaged in work, an employer must take the necessary measures for the maintenance of passages, floor and stair areas and the necessary measures for ventilation, lighting, illumination, heating, damp-proofing, rest, evacuation and sanitation, or other measures required to maintain the health, moral, order and lives of workers. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "As regards the constructions and other workspaces where workers are engaged in work, an empolyer must take the necessary measures for the maintenance of passages, floor and stair areas and the necessary measures for ventilation, lighting, illumination, heating, damp-proofing, rest, evacuation and sanitation, or other measures required to maintain the health, moral, order and lives of workers." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3440/tb ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第二十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-26/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第二十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-27/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-27/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第二十八条第一項（技術上の指針等の公表等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-28/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第九十八条第一項（使用停止命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-98/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第百十九条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/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/ja/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 23, paragraph (1) — 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