# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第三十一条 (Article 31) - 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: 第三十一条 (Article 31)（注文者の講ずべき措置） — address `art-31` - 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-31 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-31 - 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. --- ### 第三十一条（注文者の講ずべき措置） — (Measures to Be Taken by an Orderers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-31 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-31 **第一項** 特定事業の仕事を自ら行う注文者は、建設物、設備又は原材料（以下「建設物等」という。）を、当該仕事を行う場所においてその請負人（当該仕事が数次の請負契約によつて行われるときは、当該請負人の請負契約の後次の全ての請負契約の当事者である請負人を含む。）に係る作業従事者（労働者及び労働者と同一の場所において仕事の作業に従事する労働者以外の作業従事者に限る。）に使用させるときは、当該建設物等について、労働災害を防止するため必要な措置を講じなければならない。 art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-31/par-1 An orderer that directly carries out a job involved in a specified undertaking must, when having persons engaged in work (limited to workers and to persons engaged in work, other than workers, who are engaged in work on a job at the same site as workers) associated with the contractor of this orderer (including the parties to all contracts for work subsequent to the one with that contractor, if the job is carried out based on multiple levels of contracts) use a construction, equipment, or raw material (hereinafter referred to as the "construction, equipment, or raw material") at the site where it carries out that job, take the necessary measures in respect of the relevant construction, equipment, or raw material to prevent industrial injuries. machine translation, not official **第二項** 前項の規定は、当該事業の仕事が数次の請負契約によつて行なわれることにより同一の建設物等について同項の措置を講ずべき注文者が二以上あることとなるときは、後次の請負契約の当事者である注文者については、適用しない。 art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-31/par-2 If there are two or more orderers required to take the measures under the preceding paragraph in respect of the same construction, equipment, or raw material, owing to the jobs involved in the relevant undertaking being carried out based on multiple levels of contracts, the provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to the orderers of the subsequent contracts. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-31/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第三十一条第一項 (Article 31, paragraph (1)), art-31/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-31/par-1 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第三十一条第二項（注文者の講ずべき措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-31/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-31/par-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第三十二条第四項（請負人の講ずべき措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-32/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-32/par-4 - 労働安全衛生法 第三十二条第六項（請負人の講ずべき措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-32/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-32/par-6 - 労働安全衛生法 第三十二条第七項（請負人の講ずべき措置等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-32/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-32/par-7 - 労働安全衛生法 第三十六条第一項（厚生労働省令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-36/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-36/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 第四十五条第十五項（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-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-opus-5-5 — Machine translation, batch industrial-safety-and-health-act-20261017T185616-001, 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