# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第六十六条の八の四 (Article 66-8-4) - 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: 第六十六条の八の四 (Article 66-8-4) — address `art-66-8-4` - 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-66-8-4 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-4 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条の八の四 art-66-8-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-4 **第一項** 事業者は、労働基準法第四十一条の二第一項の規定により労働する労働者であつて、その健康管理時間（同項第三号に規定する健康管理時間をいう。）が当該労働者の健康の保持を考慮して厚生労働省令で定める時間を超えるものに対し、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、医師による面接指導を行わなければならない。 art-66-8-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-4/par-1 An employer, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must have a worker who works pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of Article 41-2 of the Labor Standards Act and whose working hours subject to health management (meaning the working hours subject to health management prescribed in item (iii) of that paragraph) exceed the amount of time specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in consideration of helping to maintain the health of the worker undergo face-to-face guidance by a physician. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第六十六条の八第二項から第五項までの規定は、前項の事業者及び労働者について準用する。この場合において、同条第五項中「就業場所の変更、作業の転換、労働時間の短縮、深夜業の回数の減少等」とあるのは、「職務内容の変更、有給休暇（労働基準法第三十九条の規定による有給休暇を除く。）の付与、健康管理時間（第六十六条の八の四第一項に規定する健康管理時間をいう。）が短縮されるための配慮等」と読み替えるものとする。 art-66-8-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-4/par-2 The provisions in paragraphs (2) through (5) of Article 66-8 apply mutatis mutandis to employers and workers as prescribed in the preceding paragraph. In such a case, the phrase "changing the location of work, changing the work content, shortening the working hours or reducing the frequency of night work" in paragraph (5) of that Article is deemed to be replaced with "considerations for changing the work assignment, granting paid leave (excluding paid leave prescribed in Article 39 of the Labor Standards Act), and shortening the working hours subject to health management (referring to the working hours subject to health management in paragraph (1) of Article 66-8-4) ". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-66-8-4/par-1: 労働基準法第四十一条の二第一項 → 労働基準法 第四十一条の二第一項 (Article 41-2, paragraph (1)), art-41-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-41-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-41-2/par-1 - art-66-8-4/par-1: 同項第三号 → 労働基準法 第四十一条の二第一項第三号 (Article 41-2, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-41-2/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-41-2/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-41-2/par-1/item-3 - art-66-8-4/par-2: 第六十六条の八第二項から第五項まで → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八第二項 (Article 66-8, paragraph (2)), art-66-8/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8/par-2 - art-66-8-4/par-2: 第六十六条の八第二項から第五項まで → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八第三項 (Article 66-8, paragraph (3)), art-66-8/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8/par-3 - art-66-8-4/par-2: 第六十六条の八第二項から第五項まで → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八第四項 (Article 66-8, paragraph (4)), art-66-8/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8/par-4 - art-66-8-4/par-2: 第六十六条の八第二項から第五項まで → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八第五項 (Article 66-8, paragraph (5)), art-66-8/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8/par-5 - art-66-8-4/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八の四第一項 (Article 66-8-4, paragraph (1)), art-66-8-4/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-4/par-1 - art-66-8-4/par-2: 労働基準法第三十九条 → 労働基準法 第三十九条 (Article 39), art-39 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act/art-39 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000049/art-39 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働基準法施行規則 第三十四条の二第十四項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/labor-standards-act-enforcement-ordinance/art-34-2/par-14/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322M40000100023/art-34-2/par-14/item-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八第一項（面接指導等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八の二第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-2/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-3/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の八の四第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-8-4/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-8-4/par-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第六十六条の九第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-66-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-66-9/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第百五条第一項（健康診断等に関する秘密の保持） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-105/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-105/par-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 --- ## 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