Jamie J. Spataro

With more than two decades of experience, Jamie J. Spataro’s practice encompasses a wide range of workplace safety and health issues. Jamie regularly counsels clients on all aspects of OSHA compliance, including providing advice and counsel regarding workplace safety practices, policies and procedures, assisting with investigating and responding to OSHA complaints, helping clients navigate onsite OSHA inspections and manage accident investigations, defending and negotiating OSHA citations, and assisting clients, trade associations and organizations with their OSHA regulatory policy and advocacy efforts, including crafting and submitting comments in response to OSHA proposed rulemakings.

Jamie provides training to employers on key OSHA compliance obligations including state and federal OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping and reporting requirements.

Additionally, Jamie regularly counsels clients on transportation safety compliance, including U.S. DOT FMCSA driver safety and

U.S. DOT PHMSA hazmat safety issues.

Jamie also counsels clients on state and federal environmental compliance issues.

For nearly 15 years, Jamie served as a lead regulatory counsel for a major American ground package delivery company where he advised on workplace safety, transportation safety, infectious diseases and COVID-19 mitigation, hazardous materials transportation, environmental compliance, sustainability, sustainable freight, and TSA indirect air carrier compliance.

Prior to his in-house career, Jamie spent five years in private practice serving as both national coordinating counsel and local counsel for a large corporate client involved in the defense of asbestos lawsuits. He also focused his practice on commercial and environmental litigation during which he regularly participated on trial teams in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

Jamie has served his community representing low-income clients in pro bono matters before the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and he has provided Spanish language translation support for his corporate and pro bono clients.

Professional and Community Affiliations

• Member, Labor and Employment Section, OSHA Section, American Bar Association
• Board Vice President of Advocacy, Association of Corporate Counsel, Western Pennsylvania, 2022-2023 Board Member, Pittsburgh Pro Bono Partnership, 2015-2018

Recognition

• Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 2022-present
• Executive Editor, Journal of Technology Law and Policy, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 2003 Recipient, CALI Award in Constitutional Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 2003
• Named, Class Valedictorian, and Outstanding Senior, Bethany College, 2000