# 労働安全衛生法 / Industrial Safety and Health Act — 第九十八条 (Article 98) - 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: 第九十八条 (Article 98)（使用停止命令等） — address `art-98` - 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-98 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-98 - 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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Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 都道府県労働局長又は労働基準監督署長は、前項の規定により命じた事項について必要な事項を作業従事者、請負人又は機械等若しくは建築物の貸与を受けている者に命ずることができる。 art-98/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-98/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-98/par-2 The Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau or the Chief of the Labour Standard Inspection Offices may order persons engaged in work, contractors, and persons to which machinery or other such equipment or buildings are leased to do the necessary things in connection with the things that are ordered pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph. machine translation, not official **第三項** 労働基準監督官は、前二項の場合において、労働者に急迫した危険があるときは、これらの項の都道府県労働局長又は労働基準監督署長の権限を即時に行うことができる。 art-98/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-98/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-98/par-3 The labor standards inspectors may, if there is an imminent danger to the workers in a case as referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, immediately exercise the powers of the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau or the Chief of the Labour Standard Inspection Offices under those paragraphs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 都道府県労働局長又は労働基準監督署長は、請負契約によつて行われる仕事について第一項の規定による命令をした場合において、必要があると認めるときは、当該仕事の注文者（当該仕事が数次の請負契約によつて行われるときは、当該注文者の請負契約の先次のすべての請負契約の当事者である注文者を含み、当該命令を受けた注文者を除く。）に対し、当該違反する事実に関して、労働災害を防止するため必要な事項について勧告又は要請を行うことができる。 art-98/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-98/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-98/par-4 Having given an order under paragraph (1) regarding a job being undertaken based on a contract for work, and upon finding that it is necessary to do so, the Director of the Prefectural Labour Bureau or the Chief of the Labour Standard Inspection Offices may issue a recommendation or demand to the orderer of the job (if the job is carried out based on multiple levels of contracts, this includes the parties to all contracts for work prior to that of the orderer of the job in question, but excludes the orderer that is subject to the order under paragraph (1)) regarding a thing that is needed in order to prevent an industrial injury, in connection with the factual circumstances constituting the relevant violation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-98/par-1: 第二十条から第二十五条まで → 労働安全衛生法 第二十条 (Article 20), art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-20 - art-98/par-1: 第二十条から第二十五条まで → 労働安全衛生法 第二十一条 (Article 21), art-21 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-21 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-21 - art-98/par-1: 第二十条から第二十五条まで → 労働安全衛生法 第二十二条 (Article 22), art-22 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-22 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-22 - art-98/par-1: 第二十条から第二十五条まで → 労働安全衛生法 第二十三条 (Article 23), art-23 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-23 - art-98/par-1: 第二十条から第二十五条まで → 労働安全衛生法 第二十四条 (Article 24), art-24 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-24 - art-98/par-1: 第二十条から第二十五条まで → 労働安全衛生法 第二十五条 (Article 25), art-25 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-25 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-25 - art-98/par-1: 第二十五条の二第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第二十五条の二第一項 (Article 25-2, paragraph (1)), art-25-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-25-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-25-2/par-1 - art-98/par-1: 第三十条の三第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第三十条の三第一項 (Article 30-3, paragraph (1)), art-30-3/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-30-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-30-3/par-1 - art-98/par-1: 第四項 → 労働安全衛生法 第三十条の三第四項 (Article 30-3, paragraph (4)), art-30-3/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-30-3/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-30-3/par-4 - art-98/par-1: 第三十一条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第三十一条第一項 (Article 31, paragraph (1)), art-31/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-31/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-31/par-1 - art-98/par-1: 第三十一条の二 → 労働安全衛生法 第三十一条の二 (Article 31-2), art-31-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-31-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-31-2 - art-98/par-1: 第三十三条第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第三十三条第一項 (Article 33, paragraph (1)), art-33/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-33/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-33/par-1 - art-98/par-1: 第三十四条 → 労働安全衛生法 第三十四条 (Article 34), art-34 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-34 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-34 - art-98/par-2: 前項 → 労働安全衛生法 第九十八条第一項 (Article 98, paragraph (1)), art-98/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-98/par-1 - art-98/par-3: 前二項 → 労働安全衛生法 第九十八条第一項 (Article 98, paragraph (1)), art-98/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-98/par-1 - art-98/par-3: 前二項 → 労働安全衛生法 第九十八条第二項 (Article 98, paragraph (2)), art-98/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-98/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-98/par-2 - art-98/par-4: 第一項 → 労働安全衛生法 第九十八条第一項 (Article 98, paragraph (1)), art-98/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-98/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-98/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 労働安全衛生法 第九十八条第二項（使用停止命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-98/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-98/par-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第九十八条第三項（使用停止命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-98/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-98/par-3 - 労働安全衛生法 第九十八条第四項（使用停止命令等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-98/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-98/par-4 - 労働安全衛生法 第九十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-99/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-99/par-1 - 労働安全衛生法 第百十九条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-119/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-119/par-1/item-2 - 労働安全衛生法 第百二十条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/industrial-safety-and-health-act/art-120/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/347AC0000000057/art-120/par-1/item-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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch industrial-safety-and-health-act-20261017T182624-005, 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