Uttar Pradesh's industry is concentrated in the Noida–Greater Noida–Ghaziabad electronics, automotive and garment belt, Kanpur leather, textiles and defence units, Lucknow and Unnao engineering, Moradabad brassware, Aligarh locks and hardware, Firozabad glass and bangle units, Meerut sports goods and sugar mills across western UP. Glass, foundry and leather-processing exposures make dangerous-operation schedules especially relevant.
Statutory medical surveillance in Uttar Pradesh follows the Factories Act, 1948 as implemented through the Uttar 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 | Uttar Pradesh Factories Rules, 1950 |
|---|---|
| Enforcing authority | Directorate of Factories, Labour Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh |
| Health Register (Certifying Surgeon / dangerous operations) | Form 27 (most dangerous-operation schedules and Rule 63-I hazardous processes) |
| Health Register (Factory Medical Officer / hazardous process) | Form 27 |
| Certificate of Fitness | Form 26 (Certificate of Fitness) · hazardous process: Form 26 |
| Examination frequency | Hazardous process: pre-employment, then every 6 months (Rule 63-I). Dangerous operations: within 14–15 days of first employment, then every 12 months or as the schedule prescribes. |
| Verification status | Verified against official text · last checked 2026-09-12 |
Duties of Certifying Surgeon: visits factories carrying on dangerous operations at the prescribed intervals, examines the workers and records the results in the Health Register kept by the manager; may suspend a worker by an entry in the register. Individual dangerous-operation schedules prescribe the register — Form 27 in the majority of schedules (Form 17 in the dichromate schedule).
Rule 63-I (Medical Examination, under Sections 41-B, 41-C and 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 27; no first employment without a Certificate of Fitness in Form 26; findings of abnormality reported to the Certifying Surgeon.
Occupational Health Centre and whole-time medical officer provisions for hazardous-process factories and factories employing 250 or more persons in certain schedules (for example the chemical-works schedule).
Schedules (lead, glass manufacture and bangle processes, chemical works, silica/abrasive blasting, solvents and others) require Certifying Surgeon examination within 14–15 days of first employment and re-examination every 12 months (three-monthly for certain chemical exposures), with Form 26 certificates and Form 27 entries.
Per schedule — clinical examination, pulmonary function test and chest X-ray (silica, glass), blood/urine lead, exfoliative cytology of urine for certain chemical processes, cholinesterase for pesticide manufacture, routine pathology.
Form 27 register and Form 26 certificates kept in the custody of the manager and readily available for inspection; workers may apply for a copy of their health record.
Verified against the official Uttar Pradesh government text: Form 27 Health Register (Rule 63-I and the dangerous-operation schedules), Form 26 Certificate of Fitness; Form 17 register in the dichromate schedule only.
We map your process list to the Uttar 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 Uttar Pradesh.
Completed registers and certificates in the state-prescribed format, a digital copy, due-date recall and de-identified batch statistics for management.
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.
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: Uttar Pradesh Factories Rules, 1950 — official text published by the Government of Uttar Pradesh (s3waas.gov.in). Enforcing authority: Directorate of Factories, Labour Department, Government of Uttar 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.
