# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第六十八条の二 (Article 68-2) - 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: 第六十八条の二 (Article 68-2)（受動喫煙の防止） — address `art-68-2` - 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-68-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-68-2 - 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. --- ### 第六十八条の二（受動喫煙の防止） — (Prevention of Passive Smoking) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-68-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-68-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-68-2 **第一項** 事業者は、室内又はこれに準ずる環境における労働者の受動喫煙（健康増進法（平成十四年法律第百三号）第二十八条第三号に規定する受動喫煙をいう。第七十一条第一項において同じ。）を防止するため、当該事業者及び事業場の実情に応じ適切な措置を講ずるよう努めるものとする。 art-68-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-68-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-68-2/par-1 An employer must endeavor to take appropriate measures in order to prevent the passive smoking (meaning passive smoking as prescribed in item (iii) of Article 28 of the Health Promotion Act (Act No. 103 of 2002); the same applies in paragraph (1) of Article 71) of workers in the interior of a building or in any other similar environment, in line with the actual conditions of the employer and workplace. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-68-2/par-1: 健康増進法（平成十四年法律第百三号）第二十八条第三号 → e-Gov law 414AC0000000103, 第二十八条第一項第三号 (Article 28, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-28/par-1/item-3 — not held in this collection - art-68-2/par-1: 第七十一条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第七十一条第一項 (Article 71, paragraph (1)), art-71/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-71/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-71/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 - 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-20261017T185616-004, 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