Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam steel, refinery and pharmaceutical units (including the Parawada / JNPC pharma city), the Sri City and Tirupati electronics and engineering zones, Nellore and Krishnapatnam port industry, Kakinada and Achutapuram SEZ chemicals, and Guntur and Kurnool agro-processing form the state's factory base.
Statutory medical surveillance in Andhra Pradesh follows the Factories Act, 1948 as implemented through the Andhra Pradesh Factories Rules, 1950: pre-employment and periodic examinations of workers in hazardous processes by a Factory Medical Officer, Certifying Surgeon examinations for notified dangerous operations, a Health Register and Certificates of Fitness in the state-prescribed format, and an Occupational Health Centre scaled to the workforce. Nodal Healthcare delivers all of this as an on-site programme.
| Applicable rules | Andhra Pradesh Factories Rules, 1950 |
|---|---|
| Enforcing authority | Directorate of Factories, Government of Andhra Pradesh |
| Health Register (Certifying Surgeon / dangerous operations) | Form 29 (dangerous-operation schedules) |
| Health Register (Factory Medical Officer / hazardous process) | Form 17 |
| Certificate of Fitness | Form 28 (dangerous operations); Form 17-A (FMO, hazardous process) · hazardous process: Form 17-A |
| Examination frequency | Hazardous process: pre-employment, then every 6 months. Dangerous operations: as per schedule, commonly every 12 months. |
| Verification status | Corroborated — official cross-check pending · last checked 2026-09-12 |
Duties of Certifying Surgeon and the dangerous-operation schedules: the Certifying Surgeon examines persons employed in scheduled operations at prescribed intervals, issues a Certificate of Fitness in Form 28 and records each examination in the Health Register in Form 29 (Form 27-C in a specific schedule); power of suspension by an entry in the register.
Rule 61(SB) series — Medical Examination (Sections 41-B, 41-C, 112): workers in a hazardous process are examined by the Factory Medical Officer once before employment and once every six months; details recorded in the Health Register in Form 17; no first employment without a Certificate of Fitness in Form 17-A granted by the FMO; abnormalities reported to the Certifying Surgeon.
Occupational Health Centre rule in the 61(SB) series: retainer, part-time or full-time FMO with OHC facilities scaled by workforce.
Schedules (lead, chrome, solvents, pesticides, pharmaceutical processes) require Certifying Surgeon examination at first employment and periodically with Form 28 certificates and Form 29 entries.
Per schedule — solvent and API surveillance for the Parawada pharma city and Achutapuram SEZ, heat and dust surveillance for the Visakhapatnam steel plant and refinery, blood lead where applicable.
Form 17 / Form 29 registers and Form 17-A / Form 28 certificates kept by the manager and available to the Inspector.
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana share the same 1950 rules framework: Form 17 (FMO, hazardous process) and Form 29 (Certifying Surgeon, dangerous operations); Form 27-C appears in one specific schedule only.
We map your process list to the Andhra Pradesh Factories Rules, 1950 to determine which workers need pre-employment, six-monthly or annual examinations and which tests apply.
Occupational-health physicians holding the DGFASLI-recognised AFIH qualification conduct the Factory Medical Officer examinations and support your Occupational Health Centre.
Where a schedule requires the State-appointed Certifying Surgeon, we coordinate their visit and examinations as part of the same programme, subject to the appointment rules in Andhra Pradesh.
Completed registers and certificates in the state-prescribed format, a digital copy, due-date recall and de-identified batch statistics for management.
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.
Send us your process list and headcount — we will map the applicable rules, tests and frequency and quote an on-site batch.
Status: Corroborated — official cross-check pending · Last checked: 2026-09-12. Source: Andhra Pradesh Factories Rules, 1950 — full consolidated text (non-government host); official cross-check pending. Enforcing authority: Directorate of Factories, Government of Andhra Pradesh. Rules change — we re-check each state periodically and confirm current requirements before every batch.
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.
