Goa's factory base is small but pharmaceutical-heavy — Verna, Kundaim, Pilerne, Tuem and Sancoale industrial estates host formulation and API plants, alongside the Zuari fertiliser complex, Goa Shipyard, Cuncolim and Bicholim engineering and mining-linked units, and food and beverage processing.
Statutory medical surveillance in Goa follows the Factories Act, 1948 as implemented through the Goa Factories Rules, 1985: 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 | Goa Factories Rules, 1985 |
|---|---|
| Enforcing authority | Inspectorate of Factories and Boilers, Government of Goa |
| Health Register (Certifying Surgeon / dangerous operations) | Form 7 |
| Health Register (Factory Medical Officer / hazardous process) | Form 7 |
| Certificate of Fitness | Form 29 (FMO, hazardous process); Form 26 special certificate of fitness under certain dangerous-operation schedules · hazardous process: Form 29 |
| Examination frequency | Hazardous process: pre-employment, then every 12 months (Rule 90-N as amended 2016) — note Goa differs from the six-monthly interval used in most states. Dangerous operations: as per schedule. |
| Verification status | Verified against official text · last checked 2026-09-12 |
Rule 19 (Duties of Certifying Surgeon) — sub-rule (7): at visits to factories carrying on dangerous operations the Certifying Surgeon examines the persons employed and records the results in the Health Register (Form 7), kept by the factory manager and produced at each visit; power of suspension by an entry in the register.
Rule 90-N (Medical Examination, under Sections 41-B, 41-C and 112): workers in a hazardous process are examined by a Factory Medical Officer recognised by the Chief Inspector (or through a recognised Occupational Health Laboratory) once before employment and — following the 13th Amendment, 2016 — once every twelve months, or at a shorter interval where the FMO considers necessary; the 15th Amendment, 2021 inserted sub-rule (bb) prescribing the minimum investigations (haemoglobin, total and differential WBC, blood grouping, fasting blood sugar and further tests); details recorded in the Health Register in Form No. 7; no first employment without a Certificate of Fitness in Form No. 29; abnormalities reported to the Certifying Surgeon whose opinion is final.
Rule 90-O (Occupational Health Centre): retainer FMO recognised by the Chief Inspector for small factories; OHC room of 15 sq. m with part-time FMO for mid-sized; two-room OHC and full-time FMO for larger hazardous-process factories.
Schedules (lead, electrolytic plating, chrome, fume processes with iodine-azide, cholesterol, ECG and CNS tests, vibration exposure with annual examination) require Certifying Surgeon examination within 15 days of first employment and periodic re-examination with Form 7 entries (Form 26 special certificate in some schedules).
Rule 90-N(1)(bb) prescribes a minimum panel for hazardous-process workers (haemoglobin, TLC/DLC, blood group, fasting blood sugar and further investigations); schedules add process-specific tests such as urinary iodine-azide and ECG for fume processes.
Form 7 and the certificates are kept by the manager, produced to the Certifying Surgeon at each visit and available to the Inspector; health records must be made available to workers under the 90-series rules.
Goa's Health Register is Form 7 (like Maharashtra) but the hazardous-process periodic interval is twelve-monthly after the 2016 amendment, and a statutory minimum test panel was inserted in 2021.
We map your process list to the Goa Factories Rules, 1985 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 Goa.
Completed registers and certificates in the state-prescribed format, a digital copy, due-date recall and de-identified batch statistics for management.
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.
Send us your process list and headcount — we will map the applicable rules, tests and frequency and quote an on-site batch.
Status: Verified against official text · Last checked: 2026-09-12. Source: Goa Factories Rules, 1985 updated up to the 18th Amendment — official text published by the Inspectorate of Factories & Boilers, Goa. Enforcing authority: Inspectorate of Factories and Boilers, Government of Goa. 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.
