The Datum Report

Occupation 3582 · Associate professional occupations

Health and safety managers and officers

Half of full-time health and safety managers and officers in the UK earn more than £46,444 a year, and half earn less.

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

• inspects workplace areas to ensure compliance with health and safety legislation
• helps to develop effective health and safety policies and procedures and carries out risk assessments
• instructs workers in the proper use of protective clothing and safety devices and conducts routine tests on that equipment
• compiles statistics on accidents and injuries, analyses their causes and makes recommendations to management accordingly
• maintains contact with those off work due to illness
• counsels individuals on any personal or domestic problems affecting their work
• gives talks and distributes information on accident prevention and keeps up to date with the relevant legislation

Also called

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

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for health and safety managers and officers, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 10 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

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.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

Inspectors of standards and regulations