Occupational Health (Consultation About Work)

• They are so that you can continue working at your company in good health.To check for early signs of the onset of a disease that you have not noticed yourself, they draw blood and do other tests.If the start of a disease can be detected early, treatment can be started early, and you will be able to continue working in Japan in good health until the end of your term.It is decided by law, so you are urged to undertake it. (Your company is required to provide these health checks.)
• If you are unable to undertake the health check, first ask your company.If you are still not sure even after asking your company, seek advice in English from your supervising organization or from the Native Language Consultation Center of the Organization for Technical Intern Training (OTIT) in the [List of Consulting Services].

• Once a year. However, people whose work involves handling substances that could cause illness and people who also work at late at night may undertake them once every six months.

• You can undertake the health check free of charge.

•If the traffic accident occurred during work or on your way to work, you will be covered by the Industrial Accident Health Insurance that was explained in 4.4. Consult with your company immediately.
• If the accident was unrelated to your work, the person who caused the accident will pay the costs of your treatment. Ask the other person involved in the accident for their contact details.

• If you are in a traffic accident, you are required to call the police (Tel: 110).

• If that kind of thing happens to you due to illness or injury related to your work, the costs of treatment will be covered by the Industrial Accident Insurance explained in 4.4. If you are left with a disability, you will receive a large sum of money, and if you die, that money will be paid to your family.
• Depending on the type of insurance taken out for you by the company or your supervising organization, you will receive money, or if you die, money will be paid to your family, from that insurance. You should check with your company or supervising organization.
• If you are still not sure even after asking your company, seek advice in English from your supervising organization or from the Native Language Consultation Center of the Organization for Technical Intern Training (OTIT) in the [List of Consulting Services].

•For work that is dangerous if you are unfamiliar with it, the law requires that you must receive training before starting that work. Examples of such work are welding, forklift driving, and crane operation. Ask your company about your wish to receive training before starting work in earnest. If you are fearful about anything, do not hesitate to consult your supervisor.
• If you are still not sure even after asking your company, seek advice in English from your supervising organization or from the Native Language Consultation Center of the Organization for Technical Intern Training (OTIT) in the [List of Consulting Services].

• Consult with your boss, the Health Supervisor, or Safety and Health Promoter, etc. at your company.
• The Health Supervisor or Safety and Health Promoter are people in your company whose job is to make the working environment better. If nothing changes even after consulting them or if you still do not know even after asking your company, seek advice in English from your supervising organization or from the Native Language Consultation Center of the Organization for Technical Intern Training (OTIT) in the [List of Consulting Services].Alternatively, ask a Japanese speaker whom you can trust to help you consult with a Labor Standards Inspection Office*1.
• *1 Labor Standards Inspection Offices are government offices that monitor whether companies are complying with the laws to ensure that their employees can work in good health and with peace of mind. You can use the QR code below to search for a Labor Standards Office in the area where you live. Ask someone who understands Japanese or a Japanese person near you.

• Consult with your company’s advice helpline. This behavior may be power harassment.Power harassment is when a person in a superior position to you scolds you verbally with unnecessarily harsh words or is violent toward you, making you feel so afraid that you do not want to go to work.
•If you have been subjected to power harassment at your company, make a proper written record of when, where and by whom, what kind of damage you sustained, and how it made you feel.Verbal abuse often becomes a dispute over whether or not something was said, so take an audio or video recording. Keep hold of any e-mails or letters that contain abusive language.If there has been physical violence, take photographs or be examined by a doctor and obtain a medical certificate.
• If nothing changes even after consulting your company, seek advice in English from your supervising organization or from the Native Language Consultation Center of the Organization for Technical Intern Training (OTIT) in the [List of Consulting Services].
• If you have been subjected to physical violence, you can also consult the police.
• You can also consult the Advisor for Foreign Workers Section of the Prefectural Labor Bureau.

• This behavior may be sexual harassment.
• Sexual harassment is when a person, regardless of their gender, says or does something to you that you do not like of a sexual nature.If, when a person says or does something of a sexual nature, you tell them to stop and they then start to harass you in your work, that is also sexual harassment. Consult your company’s sexual harassment advice helpline if it has one. Consult your company’s sexual harassment advice helpline if it has one.
• If it does not have such a helpline, seek advice in English from your supervising organization or from the contacts in [Seek Advice in English] below.
• If nothing changes even if you seek advice at your company, you can consult your local Prefectural Labor Bureau’s Employment Environment and Equality Department (Office). You may also be committing sexual harassment against another person without realizing it,so be careful of your own behavior.  

• The labor union will negotiate with the company if you become ill or injured and you are told that you have to quit the company if you cannot work. It will also respond to consultations if there are problems with the payment of your wages, or if it looks like you are about to be forced to quit, or regarding power harassment or sexual harassment.
• Anybody can join a labor union, regardless of what country they are from, what kind of religion they believe in, whether they are male or female, and any other way in which they may differ from other people.