Editorial · Safety & Workforce
Compliance, accident prevention, training design, and industry cases — practical articles for the field, written one at a time by the editorial desk.
Should on-hire safety and health training be delivered as e-learning or classroom training? We compare both on four practical axes — cost, time commitment, legal compliance, and multilingual support — and lay out the optimal answer by industry.
Training Design
Labona Blog
Law & Compliance
Labona Blog
Slinging is split between special education and skills training at the "1-ton lifting capacity" boundary. We organize the legal basis, training hours, costs, and on-site judgment axes — including multilingual delivery for foreign workers.
Law & Compliance
Labona Blog
After delivering on-hire safety and health training, for how many years and in what format should you keep the records? We organize the 3-year retention obligation under Industrial Safety and Health Regulations Article 38, the 7 items to record, and the migration steps from paper to digital — for HR and general affairs officers.
Law & Compliance
Labona Blog
Safety training for technical interns is a three-layer structure of "sending organization, supervising organization, receiving employer." We organize the tendency to formalize and what changes with the April 2027 transition to the Ikuseishu program — for receiving employer staff.
Training Design
Labona Blog
For companies assigning foreign workers to crane work, we organize the "skills training" vs "special education" boundary (1-ton threshold), the flow of receiving training at a registered training organization, and realistic options for taking it in Vietnamese, Chinese, etc. — for construction and manufacturing managers.
Law & Compliance
Labona Blog
We organize the 59 work categories defined in Industrial Safety and Health Regulations Article 36 by construction machinery, electrical, lifting, and other categories. Differences from skills training, walls in multilingual delivery for foreign-worker employment, and Labona's coverage — for managers.
Industry Cases
Labona Blog
We organize how to structure safety training for foreign workers in logistics (warehouse and delivery) — from accident data, on-hire training, delivery work, special education, and multilingual priorities, broken down into practical operations.
Training Design
Labona Blog
For HR officers wondering "which language do we start with?" when localizing safety and health training. We organize 2024 nationality data, industry-specific priorities, and the staged rollout plan from one language to five.
Law & Compliance
Labona Blog
With the Ikuseishu (trained worker) program starting in April 2027, how does safety training for foreign workers change? We compare it against the technical intern program — quick-reference table, pre/post-arrival training, transfer handover, and the receiving employer's scope of responsibility — for those preparing at receiving companies.
Law & Compliance
Labona Blog
When accepting dispatch workers / secondees, who delivers on-hire safety and health training — the dispatch agency or the user company? We organize the relationship between Industrial Safety and Health Act Article 59 and the Worker Dispatch Act, covering responsibility split, record retention, and additional considerations for foreign dispatch — for both dispatch agencies and user companies.
Training Design
Labona Blog
How to deliver to foreign workers the full-harness fall arrest special education mandated since 2022. We organize the required 4.5h academic + 1.5h practical content and the practical points for multilingual delivery in Vietnamese, Chinese, etc. — for construction and manufacturing managers.
Training Design
Labona Blog
How to deliver forklift special education (under 1-ton capacity) and skills training (1-ton-plus) to Vietnamese workers. We organize how to choose Vietnamese-language academic materials, how to communicate during practical instruction, and how to separate special education from skills training — for logistics and manufacturing managers.
Industry Cases
Labona Blog
Manufacturing leads all industries in fatal and serious injuries to foreign workers. This article centers on "caught/entangled" accidents and organizes items to confirm in on-hire and special education as a checklist usable on site, plus multilingual delivery points.
Law & Compliance
Labona Blog
The duty of care (安全配慮義務) applies fully to foreign workers. Starting from the Osaka District Court ruling of July 2024 — which found that Japanese-only safety training violated this duty — this article organizes the relationship between Article 5 of the Labor Contract Act and the Industrial Safety and Health Act, the compensation risk for companies, and practical countermeasures, written for legal, general affairs, and executive readers.
Training Design
Labona Blog
There are three main ways to deliver safety and health training to foreign workers in multiple languages: in-house translation, external vendor outsourcing, and multilingual e-learning. This article compares them across four axes—cost, operational workload, coverage, and regulatory follow-through—and lays out how to choose based on company size and nationality mix.
Training Design
Labona Blog
Japan's MHLW formally permits online delivery of on-hire safety and health training under its January 2021 notice. This article walks HR officers considering e-learning through the legal basis, the 4 required conditions, identity verification, recordkeeping, and common failure patterns.
Industry Cases
Labona Blog
A practical breakdown — for site managers and prime contractor staff — of the 5 walls you hit when running safety training for foreign workers on Japanese construction sites (language, culture, schedule time, prime/subcontractor responsibility split, records), plus the multilingual approach to clear each. Includes the relevant ISHA and prime contractor responsibility articles.
Law & Compliance
Labona Blog
The April 1, 2024 expansion of on-hire safety and health training in Japan. We organize the key points of the revision — the abolition of the omission clause in 労働安全衛生規則 (Industrial Safety and Health Regulations) Article 35, which now makes all 8 items mandatory across every industry — along with the scope and the required items, written for compliance officers.
Law & Compliance
Labona Blog
Hire-time safety and health training was expanded to cover all industries and all employment types under the April 2024 (令和6年4月) revision. Labona — operator of a five-language e-learning platform — gives a systematic walkthrough of the duty scope under Article 59 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act, the eight statutory training items, online delivery, dispatch workers, record retention, and multilingual delivery.
Training Design
Labona Blog
A systematic organization of the 59 work categories where special education (特別教育) is mandatory — forklift, slinging, full-body harness, arc welding, and more. Labona — operator of a five-language e-learning platform — walks through the e-learning selection criteria, coverage of the five main languages, and a five-step implementation plan for delivery "in a language foreign workers can understand."
Law & Compliance
Labona Blog
Japan's new Ikuseishuro (Training & Employment) program launches in April 2027. We explain, from a frontline practitioner's view, the scope of safety and health training obligations imposed on receiving companies, the differences from the Technical Intern Training Program, and how to roll out multilingual training.
Training Design
Labona Blog
A full picture of the safety and health training companies must master in the era of 2.3 million foreign workers in Japan. Labona — operator of a five-language e-learning platform — systematically lays out the legal basis, industry-specific issues, how to choose five languages, common failure patterns, and implementation steps.