SJ Workplace Consulting

Our Managing Director, Sarah Jezzini, leads our team.   

With over a decade of specialised academic and professional experience, Sarah is a recognised expert in workplace and employment matters, offering specialised capability in psychosocial risk management, regulatory compliance, organisational systems, and applied organisational psychology to drive sustainable workforce wellbeing and performance.  Her work spans strategic advisory, complex investigations, national research partnerships, and systems-level workforce interventions, all underpinned by a multidisciplinary foundation in law, organisational psychology, and health and safety.

Sarah holds a Bachelor of Psychological Science (Organisational Psychology) with First Class Honours, a Master of Business Law, and a Master of Commerce (Industrial Relations). During her Juris Doctor studies, she completed a thesis examining reasonable management action as a legal defence to psychological injury claims. She is currently completing a Master of Organisational Psychology and a PhD in Psychology, Work Health and Safety, and Human Factors at the University of Queensland, and is a provisionally registered psychologist.

Sarah’s investigative portfolio includes complex matters involving workplace bullying, sexual harassment, occupational violence, corrupt conduct, discrimination, serious misconduct, workers’ compensation, and psychosocial hazard identification and management. She has acted as both regulator and investigator, appeared before the Fair Work Commission, and authored expert reports for the PIC (NSW), County and Supreme Courts (VIC), Supreme Court (ACT) and District and Supreme Courts (NSW). Her approach integrates legal, psychological, and safety frameworks to deliver procedurally fair, evidence-based outcomes.

Sarah is currently leading a nationally significant research initiative, funded by the Office of Industrial Relations Queensland and delivered in partnership with Safe Work Australia, focusing on identifying predictors, mediators, and moderators of accidents, injuries, and illnesses among trade apprentices across Australia. Her research spans detailed assessments of psychosocial and physical hazards across diverse industries, including construction, mining, manufacturing, electrotechnology, aviation, automotive, engineering, hairdressing, and community services. 

Sarah is also a member of the University of Queensland’s Psychological Risk and Safety Management Lab Group (PRISM). PRISM was established in 2025 by a specialised group of national and international scholars. PRISM works at the intersection of workplace safety and mental health to explore the complex dynamics of psychosocial risk and safety management in workplaces in order to develop actionable insights that promote healthier, safer workplaces.

Sarah’s work bridges academic research and practice, and she is recognised for translating complex findings into meaningful insights for regulators, executives, and safety professionals. 

Beyond research and investigations, Sarah has extensive consulting experience across WHS, workforce strategy, and industrial relations. She has delivered strategic workforce planning and resourcing solutions—including workforce modelling, skills gap analysis, and talent mapping—for clients in construction, manufacturing, mining, IT, and professional services. She has provided market-informed salary benchmarking, overseen recruitment strategy, and advised executive teams on attraction and retention approaches aligned with legislative and award frameworks.

A pioneer in proactive psychosocial risk management, she developed a hazard identification and assessment service tailored to meet evolving WHS regulations. She has designed and implemented industry-specific WHS policies and assurance programs, conducted audits and investigations, and advised on compliance strategies for sectors including health, aged care, education, NDIS, retail, petrochemical, construction, manufacturing and transport. Her work is known for integrating human factors principles to deliver sustainable safety outcomes and foster high-performing, psychologically safe workplaces.

Sarah also delivers employer training on topics including WHS compliance, return-to-work obligations, workers’ compensation, psychosocial hazard and sexual harassment. She has supported businesses through complex IR matters—such as performance management, termination, and dispute resolution—while advocating for improved WHS and workforce policies in collaboration with government, industry, and regulatory bodies.

Her career reflects a rare integration of academic depth and applied expertise, united by a long-standing commitment to improving systems, strengthening workforce capability, and advancing safe, lawful, and inclusive work environments. 

• Registered Provisional Psychologist – Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• Member – Psychosocial Risk and Safety Management Lab Group (PRISM) – University of Queensland
• Professional Member - Australian HR Institute (AHRI)
• Member – Society for Industrial & Organisational Psychology Australia (SIOPA)
• Member - Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL)
• Member - Project Management Institute 
• Member - International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment 
• Member - Risk Management Institute of Australasia 
• NDIS Worker Screening Check 
• Blue Card Working with Children Check.