Odisha's factories are dominated by heavy industry — Jajpur–Kalinganagar and Rourkela steel, Angul and Jharsuguda aluminium and power, Paradip refinery, fertiliser and port industry, Sambalpur and Sundargarh mining-linked units, and Cuttack and Bhubaneswar engineering. Heat, dust, fluoride and metal-fume exposures are the principal concerns.
Statutory medical surveillance in Odisha follows the Factories Act, 1948 as implemented through the Odisha 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 | Odisha Factories Rules, 1950 |
|---|---|
| Enforcing authority | Directorate of Factories and Boilers, Government of Odisha |
| Health Register (Certifying Surgeon / dangerous operations) | Form 31 |
| Health Register (Factory Medical Officer / hazardous process) | Official cross-check pending |
| Certificate of Fitness | Form 30 (Certificate of Fitness under the dangerous-operation schedules); Form 5 for young persons |
| Examination frequency | Dangerous operations: within 15 days of first employment, then every 12 months per schedule. Hazardous-process interval: pending confirmation. |
| Verification status | Corroborated — official cross-check pending · last checked 2026-09-12 |
Duties of Certifying Surgeon: at visits to factories carrying on dangerous operations the Certifying Surgeon issues a Certificate of Fitness and enters the record of each examination, including the nature and results of tests, in the Health Register in Form No. 31, kept by the manager; power of suspension by an entry in the register.
Hazardous-process medical examination by the Factory Medical Officer (cited by practitioners as Rule 101-L) — the consolidated text available to us does not include the hazardous-process chapter; confirmed per client with the Directorate of Factories & Boilers.
Occupational Health Centre requirement for hazardous-process factories — pending confirmation against the current amended text.
Schedules (lead with examination within 15 days of first employment, silica, chrome, chemical works) require Certifying Surgeon examination and re-examination every 12 months with Form 30 certificates and Form 31 entries. Rule 72-A requires annual medical examination of canteen food-handlers by the Factory Medical Officer or Certifying Surgeon.
Per schedule — heat-stress, spirometry and chest X-ray for steel, aluminium and refinery workforces at Kalinganagar, Rourkela, Angul, Jharsuguda and Paradip; fluoride surveillance in aluminium smelting; blood lead where applicable.
Form 31 register and Form 30 certificates kept by the manager, produced to the Certifying Surgeon at each visit and available to the Inspector.
Odisha's Health Register is Form 31 (Form 17 quoted by some vendors is not supported by the consolidated text). Hazardous-process provisions to be confirmed from the amended official text.
We map your process list to the Odisha 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 Odisha.
Completed registers and certificates in the state-prescribed format, a digital copy, due-date recall and de-identified batch statistics for management.
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.
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: Odisha (Orissa) Factories Rules, 1950 — full consolidated text (non-government host); official cross-check pending with the Directorate of Factories & Boilers. Enforcing authority: Directorate of Factories and Boilers, Government of Odisha. 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.
