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 human resources to drive sustainable workforce safety 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, psychology, human resources, and health and safety. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Psychological Science 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 and physical hazard identification and management. She has appeared before the Fair Work Commission, and authored expert reports for the Fair Work Commission, 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 collaborating with Safe Work Australia, focusing on accidents, injuries and illnesses experienced by trade apprentices to inform enhancement to industry practice and policy. 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’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, IT, aged care and NDIS. 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.

Sarah has designed and implemented industry-specific WHS policies and procedures, undertaken investigations, and advised on compliance strategies for sectors including health, aged care, education, NDIS, retail, mining, construction, manufacturing and transport. Her work is known for integrating multidisciplinary principles to deliver sustainable safety outcomes and foster high-performing, safe workplaces. Sarah also delivers employer training on topics including WHS compliance, return-to-work obligations, workers’ compensation, psychosocial hazards and sexual harassment.

She has supported businesses through complex industrial relations matters, such as performance management, termination, and dispute resolution, responding to worker compensation insurers, all 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.