# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第七十一条の三 (Article 71-3) - 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: 第七十一条の三 (Article 71-3)（快適な職場環境の形成のための指針の公表等） — address `art-71-3` - 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-71-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-71-3 - 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. --- ### 第七十一条の三（快適な職場環境の形成のための指針の公表等） — (Publication of Guidelines for the Creation of a Comfortable Working Environment) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-71-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-71-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-71-3 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、前条の事業者が講ずべき快適な職場環境の形成のための措置に関して、その適切かつ有効な実施を図るため必要な指針を公表するものとする。 art-71-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-71-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-71-3/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to release the necessary guidelines in connection with the measures referred to in the preceding Article that employers are to take to create a comfortable work environment, in order to ensure their appropriate and effective implementation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、前項の指針に従い、事業者又はその団体に対し、必要な指導等を行うことができる。 art-71-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-71-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-71-3/par-2 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may provide the necessary guidance to employers and associations thereof in accordance with the guidelines referred to in the preceding paragraph. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-71-3/par-1: 前条 → 労働安全衛生法 第七十一条の二 (Article 71-2), art-71-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-71-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-71-2 - art-71-3/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第七十一条の三第一項 (Article 71-3, paragraph (1)), art-71-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-71-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-71-3/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第七十一条の三第二項（快適な職場環境の形成のための指針の公表等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-71-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-71-3/par-2 - 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 - This site's parser, version 209 — 労働安全衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17