One substantive answer for every State and Union Territory — which Factories Rules apply, what the Health Register is called, who examines, who signs, how often, and how we support the batch.
The Andhra Pradesh Factories Rules, 1950, enforced by the Directorate of Factories, Andhra Pradesh, require the Certifying Surgeon to examine workers in notified dangerous operations and record the results in a Health Register, and require workers in hazardous processes to be examined by a qualified Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically with an Occupational Health Centre (hazardous-process provisions in the 95-series rules). Visakhapatnam's pharmaceutical city at Parawada, the steel plant and refinery, and Achutapuram SEZ chemical units are the state's main hazardous-process concentrations. Published sources disagree on the Andhra Pradesh register form numbers, so we are withholding them until verified against the official text. Nodal Healthcare supports Andhra Pradesh factories with on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
The Factories Act, 1948 applies in Arunachal Pradesh and is administered by the state's Department of Labour and Employment, with a Chief Inspector of Factories responsible for enforcement. As in every state, the Act itself — Sections 10 (Certifying Surgeons), 41-C (hazardous-process medical examinations and health records) and 87 (dangerous operations) — establishes the duty to examine workers and maintain health records, while the state rules prescribe the register and certificate forms. We are confirming the name, year and prescribed forms of the applicable Arunachal Pradesh rules against an official source before publishing them. The state's plywood, saw-mill, cement and food-processing factories typically raise dust and noise surveillance requirements. Nodal Healthcare can organise on-site examination batches in Arunachal Pradesh with AFIH-qualified occupational-health doctors and coordinate Certifying Surgeons through the state authority where required.
Factories in Assam are governed by the Assam Factories Rules, 1950, enforced by the Chief Inspector of Factories under the Labour Welfare Department. The rules require the State-appointed Certifying Surgeon to examine workers in notified dangerous operations and record the results in a Health Register, and require hazardous-process workers to be examined by a qualified Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically with an Occupational Health Centre. The Digboi, Numaligarh and Bongaigaon refineries and the Namrup fertiliser plant are the state's principal hazardous-process employers, while tea-processing factories raise dust and noise questions. We are obtaining the official Assam consolidated text to confirm form numbers before publishing them. Nodal Healthcare supports Assam and the wider North-East with on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
Factories in Bihar are governed by the Bihar Factories Rules, 1950, enforced by the Directorate of Factories under the Labour Resources Department. The rules require the State-appointed Certifying Surgeon to examine workers in notified dangerous operations and record the results in a Health Register, and require hazardous-process workers to be examined by a qualified Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically with an Occupational Health Centre. The Barauni refinery and fertiliser complex and the newer ethanol and pharmaceutical units at Hajipur and Bihta are the state's main hazardous-process employers. We are obtaining the official Bihar consolidated text to confirm form numbers before publishing them. Nodal Healthcare supports Bihar factories with on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
Chhattisgarh continues the Madhya Pradesh Factories Rules, 1962 as adapted on the state's formation in 2000, enforced by the Directorate of Industrial Health and Safety. The framework requires the Certifying Surgeon to examine workers in notified dangerous operations and record the results in a Health Register, and requires hazardous-process workers to be examined by a qualified Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically with an Occupational Health Centre. The Raipur–Urla–Siltara sponge-iron and ferro-alloy belt, Bhilai, Korba and Raigarh are the state's principal heavy-industry employers where heat-stress, dust and fume surveillance are essential. We are obtaining the official Chhattisgarh consolidated text to confirm form numbers before publishing them. Nodal Healthcare supports Chhattisgarh factories with on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
Factories in Goa operate under the Goa Factories Rules, 1985 (amended through its 18th Amendment), enforced by the Inspectorate of Factories and Boilers. The rules require the State-appointed Certifying Surgeon to examine workers in notified dangerous operations and record the results in a Health Register, and require workers in hazardous processes to be examined by a qualified Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically with an Occupational Health Centre. Goa's pharmaceutical estates at Verna, Kundaim and Pilerne and the Zuari fertiliser plant are the state's main hazardous-process employers. Secondary sources conflict on Goa's Health Register form number, so we are withholding it until verified against the official 18th-Amendment text. Nodal Healthcare supports Goa factories with on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
Form 20 is the Health Register prescribed by Rule 15(7) of the Gujarat Factories Rules, 1963. It applies to factories carrying on any of the notified dangerous operations under Section 87 of the Factories Act, 1948 — lead processes, chrome, electrolytic plating, solvent-based processes, pesticide formulation and the other scheduled operations. For these workers the State-appointed Certifying Surgeon visits the factory at the interval fixed by the relevant schedule, examines each worker, issues a Certificate of Fitness in Form No. 5 and enters the record of each examination — including the nature and results of the tests — in Form 20, which the factory manager keeps and produces at every visit. A worker found unfit is suspended from the process by an entry in Form 20 and cannot be re-employed in it without the Certifying Surgeon's written sanction in the register. Form 20 should not be confused with Form 32, the register under Rule 68-T in which the Factory Medical Officer records pre-employment and six-monthly examinations of workers in a hazardous process, with the Certificate of Fitness in Form 33. Many Gujarat chemical units in Ankleshwar, Vapi, Dahej or Vadodara need both registers. Nodal Healthcare supports both workflows: AFIH-qualified doctors for the Rule 68-T/68-U Factory Medical Officer and Occupational Health Centre requirements, and coordination with authorised Certifying Surgeons for the Form 20 examinations, delivered as on-site batches with DISH Gujarat-ready documentation.
Haryana continues to apply the Punjab Factory Rules, 1952, as adapted for the State after its formation in 1966 and amended since, under the Factories Act, 1948. The Industrial Safety and Health Wing of the Haryana Labour Department enforces them. The rules provide for a State-appointed Certifying Surgeon to examine workers in notified dangerous operations and record the results in a Health Register, for a Certificate of Fitness to be issued after examination, and for medical examination of workers in hazardous processes by a qualified Factory Medical Officer with an Occupational Health Centre scaled to the workforce. Haryana's automotive and forging plants in Gurugram, Manesar, Bawal and Faridabad commonly trigger the noise, welding-fume, electroplating and solvent requirements. We are verifying the Haryana-specific register and certificate form numbers against the official consolidated text before publishing them. Nodal Healthcare supports Haryana factories with on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors for Factory Medical Officer and OHC requirements, and Certifying Surgeon coordination for scheduled operations.
Factories in Himachal Pradesh are governed by the Himachal Pradesh Factories Rules, 1950, enforced by the Factories wing of the Labour and Employment Department. The rules require the State-appointed Certifying Surgeon to examine workers in notified dangerous operations and record the results in a Health Register, and require hazardous-process workers to be examined by a qualified Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically with an Occupational Health Centre. The Baddi–Barotiwala–Nalagarh pharmaceutical cluster is the state's dominant hazardous-process employer, where solvent and API exposure surveillance and the FMO/AFIH requirement are central; cement plants at Darlaghat and Barmana trigger the dust schedules. We are obtaining the official Himachal consolidated text to confirm form numbers before publishing them. Nodal Healthcare supports Himachal factories with on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
Jharkhand continues the Bihar Factories Rules, 1950 as adapted on the state's formation in 2000, enforced by the Directorate of Factories, Jharkhand. The framework requires the Certifying Surgeon to examine workers in notified dangerous operations and record the results in a Health Register, and requires hazardous-process workers to be examined by a qualified Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically with an Occupational Health Centre. Jamshedpur, Adityapur, Bokaro and Ranchi's steel, automotive and heavy-engineering plants employ large shift workforces with heat, dust and noise exposure where audiometry, spirometry and heat-stress assessment are routine. We are obtaining the official Jharkhand consolidated text to confirm form numbers before publishing them. Nodal Healthcare supports Jharkhand factories with on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
The Karnataka Factories Rules, 1969 impose two distinct medical-surveillance duties. First, under Rule 88-L, every worker employed in a hazardous process must be medically examined by the Factory Medical Officer once before employment and once every six months (sooner if the FMO considers it necessary), with the details recorded in the Health Register in Form No. 16; no worker may be employed for the first time without a Certificate of Fitness in Form No. 4 issued by the FMO. The same factories must maintain an Occupational Health Centre under Rule 88-M, scaled by workforce size, with the FMO on retainer, part-time or full-time accordingly. Second, under Rule 15(13)–(15), the State-appointed Certifying Surgeon visits factories carrying on notified dangerous operations at the intervals fixed in the relevant schedule, examines the exposed workers and records the results in the Health Register in Form 26, which the manager keeps and produces at each visit. Most schedules require the Certifying Surgeon's examination within 15 days of first employment and re-examination at least once every 12 months, with process-specific tests such as blood lead, pulmonary function and chest X-ray. Enforcement is by the Karnataka Department of Factories, Boilers, Industrial Safety and Health. Nodal Healthcare provides AFIH-qualified doctors for the FMO role and coordinates authorised Certifying Surgeons for the Form 26 examinations, with on-site batches in Bengaluru, Hubballi-Dharwad, Belagavi, Mysuru, Mangaluru and other Karnataka industrial areas.
Factories in Kerala are governed by the Kerala Factories Rules, 1957, enforced by the Department of Factories and Boilers. The rules require the State-appointed Certifying Surgeon to examine workers in notified dangerous operations and record the results in a Health Register kept by the manager, and require workers in hazardous processes to be examined by a qualified Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically, with an Occupational Health Centre for hazardous-process factories. The Eloor–Edayar chemical and fertiliser belt and the Kochi refinery are the state's main hazardous-process concentrations, while plywood, cashew and coir units raise dust and ergonomic issues. We are verifying Kerala's register and certificate form numbers against the official text before publishing them. Nodal Healthcare supports Kerala factories with on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
The Madhya Pradesh Factories Rules, 1962, enforced by the Directorate of Industrial Health and Safety, require the Certifying Surgeon to examine workers in notified dangerous operations and record the results — including the nature and results of tests — in a Health Register, and require workers in hazardous processes to be examined by a qualified Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically with an Occupational Health Centre maintained by the occupier. The Indore–Pithampur pharmaceutical cluster typically falls within the hazardous-process provisions, while Satna and Katni cement and Singrauli mining-linked units trigger the dust schedules. We are verifying the Madhya Pradesh form numbers against the official consolidated text before publishing them. Nodal Healthcare runs on-site examination batches in Indore, Pithampur, Dewas, Bhopal, Mandideep, Jabalpur and Gwalior with AFIH-qualified occupational-health doctors and coordinates authorised Certifying Surgeons where required.
The Maharashtra Factories Rules, 1963 create two parallel medical-examination tracks. For factories carrying on a hazardous process (as defined in Section 2(cb) of the Factories Act, 1948), Rule 73-V requires every worker to be examined by the Factory Medical Officer once before employment and thereafter once every six months, with the details of each pre-employment and periodic medical examination recorded in the Health Register in Form 7 and a Certificate of Fitness issued in Form 6 before first employment. Rule 73-W requires such factories to maintain an Occupational Health Centre staffed by a Factory Medical Officer holding an industrial-health qualification — in practice an AFIH doctor (Associate Fellow of Industrial Health) or a DIH holder. Separately, for the notified dangerous operations listed in the schedules under Rule 114 (lead, chrome, solvents, fume processes, silica and others), Rule 18 requires the government-appointed Certifying Surgeon to visit the factory at the intervals prescribed in each schedule, examine the exposed workers and record the results in the same Form 7 Health Register. Compliance is inspected by DISH Maharashtra (Directorate of Industrial Safety and Health). Nodal Healthcare supports factory medical examination and occupational-health surveillance programmes across Maharashtra with AFIH-qualified occupational-health doctors and, where the applicable provision requires it, coordination with appropriately authorised/empanelled Certifying Surgeons.
The Factories Act, 1948 applies in Manipur and is enforced by the state's Labour and Employment Department through its Chief Inspector of Factories. The central Act requires factories carrying on hazardous processes to arrange medical examinations of workers and maintain health records (Section 41-C), and empowers the State Government to prescribe examinations by Certifying Surgeons for dangerous operations (Section 87), with the state rules setting the register and certificate forms. We are confirming the name, year and prescribed forms of the applicable Manipur rules against an official source before publishing them. Manipur's factories are predominantly food-processing, bamboo and timber and small engineering units, where dust and noise surveillance are the typical needs. Nodal Healthcare can organise on-site examination batches in Manipur with AFIH-qualified doctors and coordinate Certifying Surgeons through the state authority where required.
The Factories Act, 1948 applies in Meghalaya and is enforced by the state Labour Department's Chief Inspector of Factories. The Act requires medical examination and health records for hazardous-process workers (Section 41-C) and Certifying Surgeon examinations for dangerous operations (Section 87), with the state rules prescribing the register and certificate forms. We are confirming the name, year and prescribed forms of the applicable Meghalaya rules against an official source before publishing them. The Byrnihat industrial belt's cement, ferro-alloy, coke and steel units make silica-dust, heat and fume surveillance — pulmonary function testing, chest radiography and heat-stress assessment — the state's main occupational-health requirement. Nodal Healthcare can organise on-site examination batches in Meghalaya with AFIH-qualified doctors and coordinate Certifying Surgeons through the state authority where required.
The Factories Act, 1948 applies in Mizoram and is enforced by the state Labour Department through its Chief Inspector of Factories. The Act's Sections 41-C and 87 establish the duty to examine hazardous-process and dangerous-operation workers and maintain health records, with the state rules prescribing the forms. We are confirming the name, year and prescribed forms of the applicable Mizoram rules against an official source before publishing them. Mizoram's bamboo, timber and food-processing units typically raise dust and noise surveillance requirements rather than chemical exposure. Nodal Healthcare can organise on-site examination batches in Mizoram with AFIH-qualified doctors and coordinate Certifying Surgeons through the state authority where required.
The Factories Act, 1948 applies in Nagaland and is enforced by the state's Department of Labour and Employment through its Chief Inspector of Factories. The Act requires medical examination and health records for hazardous-process workers (Section 41-C) and Certifying Surgeon examinations for dangerous operations (Section 87), with state rules prescribing the register and certificate forms. We are confirming the name, year and prescribed forms of the applicable Nagaland rules against an official source before publishing them. Dimapur's plywood, brick, paper and food-processing factories typically require dust and noise surveillance. Nodal Healthcare can organise on-site examination batches in Nagaland with AFIH-qualified doctors and coordinate Certifying Surgeons through the state authority where required.
The Odisha Factories Rules, 1950, enforced by the Directorate of Factories and Boilers, require the Certifying Surgeon to examine workers in notified dangerous operations and enter the record of each examination, including the tests carried out, in a Health Register, and require workers in hazardous processes to be examined by a qualified Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically with an Occupational Health Centre (hazardous-process provisions in the 101-series rules). Odisha's steel, aluminium, refinery and fertiliser complexes at Kalinganagar, Rourkela, Angul, Jharsuguda and Paradip are large hazardous-process employers where heat-stress, dust and metal-fume surveillance are routine. Sources disagree on the Odisha Health Register form number, so we are withholding it until verified against the official text. Nodal Healthcare supports Odisha factories with on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
Factories in Punjab operate under the Punjab Factory Rules, 1952 (most recently amended in 2019), enforced by the Directorate of Factories in the Punjab Labour Department. The rules require examination of workers in notified dangerous operations by the State-appointed Certifying Surgeon, with results entered in a Health Register kept by the factory manager and a Certificate of Fitness issued to the worker; and they require workers in hazardous processes to be examined by a qualified Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically, supported by an Occupational Health Centre. Mandi Gobindgarh's steel re-rolling and foundry units, Ludhiana's electroplating and cycle-parts workshops and Bathinda's chemical plants are the most frequently affected. We are completing official-text verification of the Punjab form numbers before publishing them. Nodal Healthcare supports Punjab factories with on-site medical examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
The Rajasthan Factories Rules, 1951, enforced by the Factories and Boilers Inspection Department, require the State-appointed Certifying Surgeon to visit factories carrying on dangerous operations at the prescribed intervals, examine the exposed workers and record the results in a Health Register kept by the manager, with the power to suspend a worker from the process. Workers in hazardous processes must be examined by a qualified Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically, with an Occupational Health Centre for hazardous-process factories (the hazardous-process provisions are found in the 97-series rules). Rajasthan's marble, stone-crushing, cement and mining-linked units make the silica and dust schedules — with pulmonary function testing and chest radiography — particularly important, alongside noise exposure in engineering units at Bhiwadi and Neemrana. We are verifying the Rajasthan register and certificate form numbers against the official text before publishing them. Nodal Healthcare provides on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination across Rajasthan.
The Factories Act, 1948 applies in Sikkim and is enforced by the state Labour Department through its Chief Inspector of Factories. Sikkim's factory sector is unusually concentrated in pharmaceutical formulation — Rangpo, Majitar, Singtam and Namchi host plants of several national and multinational drug companies — so the Act's hazardous-process provisions (Section 41-C: pre-employment and periodic medical examinations by a qualified Factory Medical Officer, health records, Occupational Health Centre) are the most relevant, with the Factory Medical Officer normally expected to hold an industrial-health qualification such as AFIH. We are confirming the name, year and prescribed forms of the applicable Sikkim rules against an official source before publishing them. Nodal Healthcare can organise on-site examination batches in Sikkim with AFIH-qualified occupational-health doctors and coordinate Certifying Surgeons through the state authority where required.
Under the Tamil Nadu Factories Rules, 1950, a factory carrying on any occupation declared to be a dangerous operation under Section 87 of the Factories Act, 1948 must maintain the Health Register in Form 17, prescribed under Rule 14. Form 17 is completed by the State-appointed Certifying Surgeon and records, for each worker, the nature of the job, the date of employment on the present work, the dates of each medical examination, the result (fit, unfit or suspended), the period and detailed reasons for any suspension, and the date on which the worker was re-certified fit to resume duty, each entry signed and dated by the Certifying Surgeon. The register is kept by the factory manager and produced at every visit. Tamil Nadu's rules also require medical examination of workers in hazardous processes (Rule 95 and the Section 41-C provisions) by a qualified medical practitioner and an Occupational Health Centre for hazardous-process factories; because the official consolidated text is not yet published online in full, we confirm the exact hazardous-process register and Certificate of Fitness form numbers with DISH Tamil Nadu for each client rather than quoting them here. Nodal Healthcare runs on-site examination batches in Chennai, Sriperumbudur, Oragadam, Hosur, Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Salem, Cuddalore and Thoothukudi with AFIH-qualified occupational-health doctors, and coordinates authorised Certifying Surgeons for the Form 17 examinations.
Telangana adopted the Andhra Pradesh rules on its formation in 2014 as the Telangana Factories Rules, 1950, enforced by the Directorate of Factories, Telangana. The rules provide for a State-appointed Certifying Surgeon to examine workers in notified dangerous operations and record the results in a Health Register, and for workers in hazardous processes to be examined by a qualified Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically, with an Occupational Health Centre (the hazardous-process provisions sit in the 95-series rules). Hyderabad's bulk-drug and pharmaceutical units at Jeedimetla, Pashamylaram, Patancheru and Bollaram are almost all hazardous-process factories, so six-monthly surveillance of solvent- and API-exposed workers is the norm. Published secondary sources disagree on Telangana's register form numbers, so we are withholding them until verified against the official text. Nodal Healthcare supports Telangana factories with on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
The Factories Act, 1948 applies in Tripura and is enforced by the Directorate of Labour's Factories and Boilers wing through its Chief Inspector of Factories. The Act requires medical examination and health records for hazardous-process workers (Section 41-C) and Certifying Surgeon examinations for dangerous operations (Section 87), with state rules prescribing the register and certificate forms. We are confirming the name, year and prescribed forms of the applicable Tripura rules against an official source before publishing them. Tripura's rubber, bamboo, tea, brick and food-processing factories typically call for dust, noise and heat surveillance, while the gas-based industrial units may fall within the hazardous-process provisions. Nodal Healthcare can organise on-site examination batches in Tripura with AFIH-qualified doctors and coordinate Certifying Surgeons through the state authority where required.
The Uttar Pradesh Factories Rules, 1950 follow the two-track pattern used across most Indian states. For a hazardous process, Rule 63-I requires the Factory Medical Officer to examine each worker once before employment and once every six months, record the details in the Health Register in Form 27, and issue a Certificate of Fitness in Form 26 before first employment; a worker declared unfit may appeal to the Inspector, who refers the matter to the Certifying Surgeon, and a worker taken away from a process may return only after a fitness certificate from the Certifying Surgeon is entered in the register. For notified dangerous operations — which in Uttar Pradesh include glass manufacture and bangle-making, lead, chemical works, abrasive blasting and others — the relevant schedule requires the Certifying Surgeon to examine every worker within 14–15 days of first employment and re-examine at least every 12 months (every three months for certain chemical exposures), again with a Form 26 certificate and a Form 27 entry. Factories in the chemical-works schedule employing 250 or more persons must also have a whole-time medical officer. Nodal Healthcare supports factories in Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad, Kanpur, Lucknow, Unnao, Moradabad, Aligarh and Firozabad with AFIH-qualified doctors for the FMO role, on-site examination batches and coordination of authorised Certifying Surgeons for the scheduled operations.
Uttarakhand continues the Uttar Pradesh Factories Rules, 1950 as adapted on its formation in 2000, enforced by the Directorate of Factories, Uttarakhand; the state has also published draft rules under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, which will replace the current framework when brought into force. The existing rules require the Certifying Surgeon to examine workers in notified dangerous operations and record the results in a Health Register, and require hazardous-process workers to be examined by a Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically with an Occupational Health Centre. The SIDCUL estates at Haridwar, Pantnagar, Sitarganj and Selaqui host the pharmaceutical, automotive and FMCG plants most affected. We are obtaining the official Uttarakhand consolidated text to confirm form numbers before publishing them. Nodal Healthcare supports Uttarakhand factories with on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
The West Bengal Factories Rules, 1958, enforced by the Directorate of Factories, require the State-appointed Certifying Surgeon to examine workers employed in notified dangerous operations and record the results in a Health Register kept by the factory manager and produced at each visit, and require workers in hazardous processes to be medically examined by a qualified practitioner before employment and periodically (the hazardous-process provisions sit in the 61-series rules), with an Occupational Health Centre for hazardous-process factories. Haldia's petrochemical units, Durgapur and Howrah foundries and the Hooghly jute mills are the typical triggers, with dust, heat and chemical-exposure examinations. We are verifying the West Bengal register and certificate form numbers against the official text before publishing them. Nodal Healthcare supports West Bengal factories with on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
Yes. The Factories Act, 1948 extends to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and is administered by the UT Labour Department through its Chief Inspector of Factories. Any licensed factory carrying on a hazardous process must arrange pre-employment and periodic medical examinations and maintain health records under Section 41-C, and workers in notified dangerous operations must be examined by a Certifying Surgeon under Section 87, with the UT rules prescribing the forms. We are confirming the name, year and prescribed forms of the applicable rules against an official source before publishing them. The islands' timber, plywood, fish-processing and boat-building units typically need dust, noise and general fitness surveillance. Nodal Healthcare can organise examination batches in Port Blair with AFIH-qualified doctors and coordinate Certifying Surgeons through the UT authority where required.
Chandigarh applies the Punjab Factory Rules, 1952 as adapted for the Union Territory, enforced by the Chandigarh Administration's Labour Department through its Chief Inspector of Factories. The rules require the Certifying Surgeon to examine workers in notified dangerous operations and record results in a Health Register, and require hazardous-process workers to be examined by a Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically with an Occupational Health Centre. Employers with plants in Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula should note that each falls under a different jurisdiction — Chandigarh (UT), Punjab and Haryana respectively — even though the underlying rules share a common Punjab origin. We are confirming the UT-adapted form numbers against an official source before publishing them. Nodal Healthcare supports the Chandigarh tri-city with on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
Factories in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu come under the Factories Act, 1948 and the rules framed for the Union Territory, enforced by the UT Administration's Inspectorate of Factories and Boilers; the two former UTs had separate rules before their 2020 merger, and we are confirming the currently applicable consolidated rules and form numbers against an official source before publishing them. The Act's requirements are the same as elsewhere: hazardous-process workers examined by a Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically with health records and an Occupational Health Centre (Section 41-C), and dangerous-operation workers examined by a Certifying Surgeon (Section 87). Silvassa's and Daman's chemical, plastics, textile-processing and pharmaceutical units are frequent triggers. Being close to our Mumbai headquarters, Silvassa and Daman are among the locations where we run on-site examination batches most often, with AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
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Factories in the National Capital Territory are governed by the Delhi Factories Rules, 1950, framed under the Factories Act, 1948 and enforced by the Factories Wing of the Delhi Labour Department. As in other jurisdictions, the rules require the State-appointed Certifying Surgeon to examine workers employed in notified dangerous operations at prescribed intervals and to record the results in a Health Register kept by the manager, and require workers in hazardous processes to be medically examined by a qualified practitioner before employment and periodically thereafter, with an Occupational Health Centre for hazardous-process factories. Delhi's industrial areas — Okhla, Bawana, Narela, Mayapuri, Wazirpur and Naraina — contain a high proportion of electroplating, powder-coating and solvent-using units, so the electroplating and solvent schedules are the most frequently triggered. We are completing verification of the prescribed Delhi form numbers against the official text before publishing them; until then we confirm the applicable register and certificate forms with the Labour Department for each client. Nodal Healthcare runs on-site examination batches across Delhi and the adjoining NCR with AFIH-qualified occupational-health doctors and coordinates authorised Certifying Surgeons where a schedule requires them.
The central Factories Act, 1948 was extended to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in October 2019, replacing the earlier state legislation, and is enforced by the UT's Labour Department through its Factories and Boilers wing. The Act requires hazardous-process workers to be medically examined before employment and periodically with health records and an Occupational Health Centre (Section 41-C), and dangerous-operation workers to be examined by a Certifying Surgeon (Section 87), with rules prescribing the forms. We are confirming which rules and forms currently apply in the UT against an official source before publishing them. The Bari Brahmana–Samba–Kathua pharmaceutical, cement and steel units are the principal hazardous-process employers. Nodal Healthcare can organise on-site examination batches in Jammu and Kashmir with AFIH-qualified doctors and coordinate Certifying Surgeons through the UT authority where required.
The Factories Act, 1948 extends to the Union Territory of Ladakh following the 2019 reorganisation and is administered by the UT Labour Department. Any licensed factory carrying on a hazardous process or dangerous operation is subject to the Act's medical examination and health-record duties (Sections 41-C and 87), with forms prescribed by the applicable rules, which we are confirming against an official source before publishing. In practice Ladakh's factories are small food-processing, wool and construction-material units, and the more significant occupational-health need is high-altitude fitness assessment for project and infrastructure workforces. Nodal Healthcare can organise examination batches in Leh and Kargil with AFIH-qualified doctors, including altitude-fitness protocols, and coordinate Certifying Surgeons through the UT authority where required.
The Factories Act, 1948 extends to Lakshadweep and is administered by the UT Labour Department. The Act's medical examination and health-record duties apply to any licensed factory carrying on a hazardous process (Section 41-C) or a notified dangerous operation (Section 87), with forms prescribed by the applicable UT rules, which we are confirming against an official source before publishing. Lakshadweep's fish-canning, coir and ice-plant units are small and rarely fall within the hazardous-process definition, but ammonia refrigeration in ice and fish-processing plants can trigger surveillance requirements. Nodal Healthcare can organise examination visits to the islands with AFIH-qualified doctors and coordinate Certifying Surgeons through the UT authority where required.
Factories in Puducherry are governed by the Puducherry Factories Rules, 1964, enforced by the Labour Department's Chief Inspector of Factories. The Labour Department lists the dangerous manufacturing processes and operations prescribed under Section 87 of the Factories Act read with Rule 105 of the Puducherry rules, for which the Certifying Surgeon must examine workers at prescribed intervals and record the results in a Health Register, and the rules also require hazardous-process workers to be examined by a Factory Medical Officer before employment and periodically with an Occupational Health Centre. Pharmaceutical and chemical units at Sedarapet, Mettupalayam and Thirubhuvanai are the main hazardous-process employers, with textile and plastics units raising dust and noise issues. We are confirming the Puducherry register and certificate form numbers against the full official text before publishing them. Nodal Healthcare supports Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam with on-site examination batches, AFIH-qualified doctors and Certifying Surgeon coordination.
An AFIH doctor is a registered medical practitioner who holds the Associate Fellow of Industrial Health, the DGFASLI-regulated industrial-health qualification recognised for Factory Medical Officer appointment in hazardous-process factories across India. A Certifying Surgeon is a doctor appointed or authorised by the State Government under Section 10 of the Factories Act, 1948 to exercise specific statutory powers. The qualification and the appointment are different things; an AFIH doctor is not automatically a Certifying Surgeon. Nodal Healthcare provides AFIH-qualified doctors and coordinates authorised Certifying Surgeons where a rule requires them.
No. Each State Factories Rules prescribes its own — Form 7 in Maharashtra, Form 26 and Form 16 in Karnataka, Form 20 and Form 32 in Gujarat, Form 17 in Tamil Nadu, Form 27 in Uttar Pradesh, and so on. The signatory and the triggering rule also differ. Our documentation service generates the correct register for each plant from one examination dataset.
Yes. We are headquartered in Mumbai and run on-site factory medical examination batches across India, sequencing multi-plant tours to keep travel efficient. We do not maintain a resident team or office in every state; we bring the team to your plant.
Employer-level, de-identified reporting: total examined, fit / temporarily unfit / referred counts where legally and medically appropriate, age and department distributions, blood-pressure and BMI trends, vision, audiometry and pulmonary-function abnormality rates, blood-glucose and haematology observations, exposure-group statistics, referral and follow-up status, and next-due dates. Individual findings go only to the worker and the occupier's authorised medical function.
Tell us the state, the process and the headcount — we will reply with the applicable rule, form and a batch plan.
Nodal Healthcare provides occupational-health services through qualified medical professionals. AFIH-qualified doctors and Factory Medical Officers are not, by virtue of that qualification, Certifying Surgeons; Certifying Surgeons are appointed or authorised by the State Government under Section 10 of the Factories Act, 1948. Where a statutory provision requires a Certifying Surgeon or other authority-approved practitioner, we coordinate compliant services through appropriately qualified, authorised or empanelled professionals, subject to the applicable state rules and appointment requirements. Content on this page is a general guide and not legal advice; always confirm current requirements with the competent state authority.
