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Overview of Registration System
Last Updated June 24, 2024
This is the site of Health Sanitation Division, Health and Safety Department, Yokohama City Public Health Center. We provide information on the hygiene of buildings.
Please contact Health and Welfare Center Health Sanitation Division, the ward where the facility is located.
Overview of the Building Hygiene Act (registration system)
1 Basis Laws and Regulations
Article 12-2 of the Act on Securing a Hygiene Environment in Buildings
2 Industries that can be registered
| Industry | Contents of Operations |
|---|---|
| Building cleaning business (No. 1 registration) | Business to clean floors, etc. in buildings (excluding business to clean exterior walls and windows of buildings, and to clean only plumbing and drainage facilities.) |
| Building air environment measurement business (No. 2 registration) | Business to measure the air environment (floating dust, carbon monoxide content, carbon dioxide content, temperature, relative humidity, airflow) in buildings |
Duct cleaning business for building air conditioning (No. 3) | Business to clean ducts for air conditioning in buildings |
| Building drinking water quality inspection business (No. 4 registration) | Projects to conduct water quality inspections of drinking water quality in buildings by the method listed in the lower column of the table of the Ministerial Ordinance on Water Quality Standards (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Ordinance No. 101 of 2003). |
| Building drinking water storage tank cleaning business (No. 5 registration) | Business to clean drinking water storage tanks for buildings such as receiving tanks and elevated water tanks |
| Building drainage pipe cleaning business (No. 6 registration) | Business to clean drainage pipes for buildings |
| Building mouse insect control business (No. 7 registration) | Business to control animals that may cause problems such as rats and insects in buildings that may impair human health. |
| Building Environmental Sanitation Comprehensive Management Business (No. 8 registration) | Cleaning, operation of air conditioning equipment and mechanical ventilation equipment in buildings, daily inspection and repair (hereinafter referred to as “operation, etc.”) In addition, the measurement of the air environment, the operation of equipment related to water supply and drainage, the inspection of free residual chlorine contained in water in the hydrant, and the inspection of the color, turbidity, smell and taste of the water in the hydrant. Business that also performs the necessary degree for the maintenance and management of the sanitary environment. |
3 Restrictions on display and display of registration
(1)Name of display
Registered traders can display the following for each industry.
- Registered building cleaning business
- Registered building air environment measurement business
- Duct cleaning business for air conditioning of registered buildings
- Registered building drinking water quality inspection business
- Registered building drinking water storage tank cleaning business
- Registered building drainage pipe cleaning business
- Registered building rat insect control business
- Registered Building Environmental Sanitation Comprehensive Management
(2)Restrictions on display
Since registration is performed for each business office, it is not possible to indicate that the business office other than the registered business office is a registered business or similar.
If you violate this, you will be punished.
4 Places to receive registration
Registration can be registered for each sales office according to the business category of the business.
A sales office is the basis for certain business activities objectively, and has the ability to conclude an acceptance agreement and perform legal and actual acts such as management of duties related to registration. What you have.
Therefore, it is not possible to register employee waiting rooms in the building as sales offices.
5 The validity period of registration
The registration is valid for 6 years. Therefore, if you want to display a registered trader for more than 6 years, you must receive a new registration (re-register).
6 Cancellation of registration
If the registered sales office no longer meets the registration criteria, the registration may be canceled.
Registration criteria
Registration standards are broadly divided into standards for machinery and equipment and other equipment (physical requirements) and standards for qualifications for persons engaged in business (human requirements).
These standards must be necessary and sufficient to conduct a business related to registration.
- List of registration criteria [PDF（PDF：308KB）]
- List of supervisors [PDF（PDF：418KB）]
- Standards by industry
Building cleaning business
Building air environment measurement business
Duct cleaning business for building air conditioning
Building drinking water quality inspection business
Building drinking water storage tank cleaning business
Building drainage pipe cleaning business
Control of rats and insects
General Management of Building Environmental Sanitation
For more information, please contact Health and Welfare Center Health Sanitation Division in the district where the registered office is located.
Procedures for registration application (re-registration)
1 Application for registration
- Registration flow
Application
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Acceptance
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Content survey (document survey and field survey)
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Contents Review and Registration
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Issuance of certificates (Health Sanitation Division window)
The validity period of registration is 6 years indicated on the registration certificate.
Please complete the procedures at Health and Welfare Center, which has jurisdiction over the location of the office, approximately two months to one month before the final effective date.
The registration window is Health and Welfare Center Health Sanitation Division, the ward where the sales office is located.
2. Registration application fee
| Industry | Application fee |
|---|---|
| Building cleaning business | 35,000 yen |
| Building air environment measurement business | 35,000 yen |
| Duct cleaning business for building air conditioning | 35,000 yen |
| Building drinking water quality inspection business | 35,000 yen |
| Building drinking water storage tank cleaning business | 35,000 yen |
| Building drainage pipe cleaning business | 35,000 yen |
| Control of rats and insects | 35,000 yen |
| General Management of Building Environmental Sanitation | 45,000 yen |
The fee will be paid at the Health and Welfare Center Health Sanitation Division window at the time of application.
Notification of change and abolition
1 Notification of change
If any of the following changes are made, the registered company must submit to the Health and Welfare Center Health Sanitation Division in the ward where the office is located with the necessary attached documents for notification of change.
Please attach the attached documents of the notification of change in the same way as the attached documents at the time of application for registration (in the case of re-registration change, the actual attachment is omitted using the attached documents confirmation slip).
Also, if there is a change in the contents of the registration certificate, please attach the old registration certificate.
| Changes | attached documents |
|---|---|
| Company name (in the case of a corporation) | Certificate of entry (history certificate) * |
| Name (in the case of an individual) | Copy of resident certificate* |
| Address (in the case of a corporation) | Certificate of entry (history certificate) * |
| Address (in the case of individuals) | Copy of resident certificate* |
| Name of sales office | None |
| Location of sales offices | Guide map (drawing showing an overview of the neighborhood centering on the sales office after the change) |
| Name of Representative | Certificate of entry (history certificate) *, etc. |
| Name of the person in charge | None |
| Major machinery and equipment | Documents describing the outline of the machinery and equipment after the change (described in Attachment 1, “Overview of Machinery and Equipment”) |
| Supervisors, etc. (including changes in names due to marriage, etc.) | List of supervisors after the change Documents certifying that the person after the change is qualified (list of supervisors, copy of supervisor training course completion certificate, diploma*, etc.) (In the case of a name change due to marriage, etc., if rewriting is performed at a supervisor training institution registered by the Minister of Health and Welfare, a copy of the certificate of completion of the supervisor training course and a copy of resident certificate if the supervisor training institution has not rewritten at the supervisor training institution registered with the Minister of Health and Welfare*.) |
| Method of implementation of work, etc. | Documents describing how to carry out the work after the change. |
| Storage, water quality inspection room | Installation location (if there is a business office other than a sales office, a drawing (including a guide map) showing an overview of the neighborhood) and a drawing that clarifies the structure, layout, and storage status |
※*Please attach one within approximately three months from the date of certification or certification.
※If there is a change in the information on the registration certificate, the registration certificate will be rewritten, so please attach the registration certificate (original).
2 Notification of abolition
If the registered agent abolishes the business related to registration, the registered agent must submit this notice to Health and Welfare Center Health Sanitation Division in the ward where the business office is located within 30 days from that date with the registration certificate.
Reference Materials
- Standards for cleaning work and maintenance of cleaning machinery and equipment (Notification No. 117 of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) [PDF（PDF：163KB）]
- Registration of business related to securing a sanitary environment in buildings (Kenei No. 0326001, March 26, 2002) [PDF（PDF：207KB）]
- References for various workshops, etc. [PDF（PDF：234KB）]
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Inquiries to this page
Health Sanitation Division, Medical Care Bureau Health and Safety Department
Telephone: 045-671-2456
Telephone: 045-671-2456
Fax: 045-641-6074
Email address: ir-seikatsueisei@city.yokohama.lg.jp
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