The Datum Report

Occupation 3582 · Associate professional occupations

Health and safety managers and officers

Health and safety managers and officers counsel employees to ensure and promote health and safety in the workplace and co-ordinate accident prevention and health and safety measures within an establishment or organisation.

How people enter it

Entrants usually possess a degree or vocational qualification in occupational health and safety; and typically practice at level 6 or sometimes level 7 for more advanced positions.

What the work involves

Also called

Asbestos surveyor · Health and safety officer · Occupational hygienist · Safety consultant · Safety officer

What it pays

MeasureHoursBasisPeriodValueSource
3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None None 2026-03 70,800.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None None 2026-03 76,900.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None None 2026-03 85,500.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None None 2026-03 2,400.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None None 2026-03 8,600.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None None 2026-03 87,900.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None None 2026-03 6,200.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

RegionMeasureHoursValuePeriod
East 3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None 11,300.00 2026-03
East Midlands 3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None 6,600.00 2026-03
London 3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None 7,000.00 2026-03
North East 3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None 6,200.00 2026-03
North West 3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None 7,600.00 2026-03
Northern Ireland 3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None 2,400.00 2026-03
Scotland 3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None 8,600.00 2026-03
South East 3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None 11,000.00 2026-03
South West 3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None 5,600.00 2026-03
Wales 3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None 6,200.00 2026-03
West Midlands 3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None 8,100.00 2026-03
Yorkshire and The Humber 3582 : Health and safety managers and officers None 7,200.00 2026-03

Common questions

Does pay for health and safety managers and officers vary by region?

ONS publishes regional pay for this occupation where the survey sample supports it — 12 of 12 cells on this page. The rest are withheld by ONS, and are shown as withheld with the reason, rather than left out.

Where do these pay figures come from?

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, published by the Office for National Statistics. Figures are shown exactly as ONS publishes them — we do not adjust, model or fill them in, and every number on this page carries the series and period it came from.

Classified alongside this

Inspectors of standards and regulations