# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第七十九条 (Article 79) - 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: 第七十九条 (Article 79)（安全衛生改善計画） — address `art-79` - 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-79 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-79 - 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. --- ### 第七十九条（安全衛生改善計画） — (Safety and Health Improvement Plans) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-79 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-79 **第一項** 都道府県労働局長は、事業場の施設その他の事項について、労働災害の防止を図るため総合的な改善措置を講ずる必要があると認めるとき（前条第一項の規定により厚生労働大臣が同項の厚生労働省令で定める場合に該当すると認めるときを除く。）は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、事業者に対し、当該事業場の安全又は衛生に関する改善計画（以下「安全衛生改善計画」という。）を作成すべきことを指示することができる。 art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-79/par-1 On finding that it is necessary to take comprehensive measures to improve equipment and other things at the workplace in order to prevent an industrial injury (excluding when the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has found the equipment and other things fall under the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article), the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau may instruct the employer, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, to prepare an improvement plan concerning safety and health in the relevant workplace (hereinafter referred to as a "safety and health improvement plan"). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "On finding that it is necessary to take comprehensive measures to improve equipment and other things at the workplace in order to prevent an industrial injurie (excluding when the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has found the equipment and other things fall under the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article), the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau may instruct the employer, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, to prepare an improvement plan concerning safety and health in the relevant workplace (hereinafter referred to as a "safety and health improvement plan")." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3440/tb **第二項** 前条第二項及び第三項の規定は、安全衛生改善計画について準用する。この場合において、同項中「第一項」とあるのは、「次条第一項」と読み替えるものとする。 art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-79/par-2 The provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis to safety and health improvement plans. In such a case, the phrase "paragraph (1)" in those paragraphs is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (1) of the following Article". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-79/par-1: 前条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第七十八条第一項 (Article 78, paragraph (1)), art-78/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-78/par-1 - art-79/par-2: 前条第二項 → 労働安全衛生法 第七十八条第二項 (Article 78, paragraph (2)), art-78/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-78/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-78/par-2 - art-79/par-2: 第三項 → 労働安全衛生法 第七十八条第三項 (Article 78, paragraph (3)), art-78/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-78/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-78/par-3 - art-79/par-2: 第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第七十八条第一項 (Article 78, paragraph (1)), art-78/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-78/par-1 - art-79/par-2: 次条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第七十九条第一項 (Article 79, paragraph (1)), art-79/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-79/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第七十九条第二項（安全衛生改善計画） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-79/par-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第八十条第二項（安全衛生診断） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-80/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-80/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of paragraphs, written 2026-10-18 - 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 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Industrial Safety and Health Act (労働安全衛生法), Article 79, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (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