The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will focus on surveying the current situation of cost sharing among former construction workers and conducting public relations activities, including customers, to ensure that costs related to health and safety measures during construction are paid appropriately. Remember that amendments to the Construction Business Act and other legislation tabled in the current session of Parliament will strengthen regulations to ensure appropriate labor costs and legal benefits costs , health and safety costs will also be determined in the same manner and the appropriate amount. will be required to be confidential. The idea is to make the information known. We will accelerate efforts to clearly detail labor costs and legal benefits costs in estimates, and will continue to monitor construction companies' feedback.
The meeting of the "Working Group on Safety and Health Measurement Item Confirmation Table and Standard Estimation", consisting of scholars and practitioners from construction industry organizations, was held on the 14th to discuss strategic public relations and build awareness of health and safety costs... The direction of the survey on the status of merchant payments was indicated.
Strategic public relations will be carried out in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and related organizations. In addition to the content of the revised Occupational Health and Safety Regulations (Health and Safety Regulations) which will require the use of this type of scaffolding on construction sites starting from April, specially designed leaflets for different locations, such as construction companies, public authorities and individual customers, sole managers and end users to be published, etc., are created sequentially.
A fact-finding survey will be conducted around the summer, expanding the existing survey on issues such as ensuring legal welfare funding. A questionnaire was sent to 40,000 licensed businesses. The main contractor and subcontractor will confirm how the division of labor safety and hygiene measures, cost burden and related costs are clearly stated in the estimate. Separately, we will regularly monitor specialized construction organizations on the status of preparation of ``confirmation sheets'' of countermeasure items and ``standard estimates'' which clearly state division of related costs.
At the meeting, there were calls for customers and end users to understand the cost burden, especially in private construction projects such as housing. It is anticipated that additional costs may be required during the construction period due to factors such as the multi-tiered sub-contracting structure and some have called for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to become a role model for local authorities by proactively responding. to change the design.
Hiroshi Makinae, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary (in charge of the Department of Construction Economics and Real Estate), mentioned the Business Law Amendment Bill that would ban estimates and contracts based on extremely low labor costs, said: ``Safety and health costs are also important to ensure the safety and health of construction workers.'' ``Important to'' and emphasizes relevance. Working group chairman Hirotake Kanizawa, a professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology, also said: ``Instead of including them in the total price (to understand the customer), we calculate the safety, health and safety costs ourselves. statutory benefit costs. and put it on the table: "Both of these are aimed at protecting workers. They are also very important so that young people can come to work with peace of mind."
