About Brad Hammock
Brad Hammock is a Partner in the Washington DC Region Office of Jackson Lewis, practicing exclusively in the safety and health area, and is a nationally recognized expert on occupational safety and health law. Mr. Hammock is the practice group coordinator for Jackson Lewis’s Workplace Safety Compliance Practice Group.
He joined the Firm in 2008 after serving for ten years as an OSHA attorney within the Department of Labor including, most recently, for more than three years as lead counsel for safety standards. As lead counsel, Mr. Hammock managed attorneys who worked with OSHA on regulatory initiatives, compliance assistance, and enforcement policy. He had direct responsibility for more than 20 major OSHA regulatory initiatives, including rulemakings on personal protective equipment, confined spaces, and crane safety.
Before his promotion to lead counsel, Mr. Hammock worked as a regulatory attorney for OSHA, focusing on ergonomics. He was one of the lead attorneys during the development of the OSHA ergonomics standard in 2000 and had primary responsibility for the Department of Labor’s comprehensive approach to ergonomics in 2002. Mr. Hammock is widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading experts on ergonomics.
Education
- University of Virginia/Bachelor of Arts in American Government/1992
- Syracuse University College of Law/Juris Doctor, magna cum laude/1996
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Virginia
