Safety Management and Environmental Protection Specialist pay range
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · class code 71900
- Class code
- 71900
- Pay scale group
- ST 08
- Pay unit
- Year
- Bargaining unit
- G3
- State
- Pennsylvania
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published pay range for Safety Management and Environmental Protection Specialist is $69,086 to $104,959 per year.
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration keys this classification as class code 71900.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Class specification
The Commonwealth job specification for this class is published by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration. The passages below are quoted from it as published, not paraphrased, and cut to their opening sentences; the full specification is the authority on duties and qualifications. It was last revised 12/12/2006.
What the state says the job is
This is responsible administrative and technical work in the development, implementation, monitoring, coordination and evaluation of a comprehensive safety management and environmental protection program in the Department of Corrections or the Department of Public Welfare. An employee in this job plans, develops, organizes, coordinates and evaluates a major segment of the statewide safety management and environmental protection program for all department sites and field facilities.
Examples of the work
Plans, develops, coordinates and evaluates major segment of the statewide safety management and environmental protection program activities, such as accident prevention, fire prevention and protection, vehicle driver safety, environmental hazardous substance control, and an emergency response system. Analyzes and interprets various federal, state and local laws and regulations, the Right-To-Know Act, life safety codes, and accreditation requirements. Develops departmental safety and environmental protection policies and standards.
Minimum qualifications
Four years of professional experience in developing or evaluating an environmental protection or safety management program, which included one year in a supervisory or consultative capacity, and a bachelors degree; or An equivalent combination of training and professional experience in an environmental protection or safety management program which includes one year of supervisory or consultative experience.
Quoted from the Commonwealth job specification, read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of Administration publishes this figure in Classification and Pay Plan (online, current annual salary ranges). Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
The Commonwealth also links this class code to its own job title and specification. That page is the official description of the classification; this page publishes its pay range.
The listed pay scale is available in the Commonwealth's current ST schedule.