# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第五十九条 (Article 59) - 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: 第五十九条 (Article 59)（安全衛生教育） — address `art-59` - 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-59 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-59 - 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. --- ### 第五十九条（安全衛生教育） — (Safety and Health Education) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-59 **第一項** 事業者は、労働者を雇い入れたときは、当該労働者に対し、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、その従事する業務に関する安全又は衛生のための教育を行なわなければならない。 art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-59/par-1 Having begun to employ a new worker, the employer must educate that worker in safety or health as it relates to the operations in which the worker is to be engaged, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定は、労働者の作業内容を変更したときについて準用する。 art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-59/par-2 The provisions of the preceding paragraph apply mutatis mutandis if the substance of the worker's work has changed. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 事業者は、危険又は有害な業務で、厚生労働省令で定めるものに労働者をつかせるときは、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該業務に関する安全又は衛生のための特別の教育を行なわなければならない。 art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-59/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-59/par-3 Before assigning a worker to dangerous or hazardous operations specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, an employer must educate that worker in safety or health as it relates to the operations, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-59/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第五十九条第一項 (Article 59, paragraph (1)), art-59/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-59/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第五十九条第二項（安全衛生教育） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-59/par-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第六十条の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-60-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-60-2/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 - 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 第四十五条第六項（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-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/360AC0000000088/art-45/par-6 --- ## 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