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About SJ Workplace

What we do

SJ Workplace Consulting is a specialist workplace health and safety, compliance, and risk management consultancy firm. We provide evidence-based advisory, research, and investigative services to government, regulators, and complex organisations. Our work also includes independent workplace investigations, expert evidence, and risk-led advisory support. This assists organisations to prevent harm, respond to serious workplace issues, and strengthen defensible systems of governance, control, and decision‑making. We work at the intersection of work health and safety, psychosocial risk management, employment and industrial relations, and workforce strategy. We deliver clear findings, practical remediation, and executive‑ready advice for high‑risk and highly regulated operating environments.

Across a substantial body of investigative, evaluative, and policy‑relevant work, we have developed a detailed, system‑level understanding of how psychosocial risk, professional practice, regulatory design, and compensation and recovery frameworks interact in practice. This includes recurrent patterns in organisational responses to harm. It also includes the role and influence of health professionals, particularly medical practitioners, within compensation and regulatory systems. We further consider the structural factors that shape workforce outcomes and recovery trajectories.

Led by Managing Director Sarah Jezzini, SJ Workplace Consulting brings multidisciplinary expertise spanning psychosocial risk management, workers’ compensation and personal injury systems, regulatory compliance, and workforce and organisational design. The firm is recognised for its ability to integrate legal, psychological, human factors, and WHS frameworks. We use those frameworks to synthesise insights across multiple matters. We identify systemic drivers of risk and inefficiency. We translate complex qualitative and quantitative evidence into clear, defensible findings suitable for executive, legal, and regulatory audiences.

This approach supports policy relevant research, system‑level evaluation, and practical reform. It enables regulators, scheme managers, and organisations to move beyond case‑specific responses. It also supports improved regulatory decision making, stronger scheme performance, and sustainable workforce and recovery outcomes.

Our Approach

At SJ Workplace Consulting, we apply a structured, evidence-based approach to each engagement, while ensuring the work is tailored to the client’s context, operating environment, and decision requirements. We begin by clarifying the purpose and scope of the work and establishing a clear baseline of the current position, so advice is anchored to a defensible understanding of existing systems, practices, and risks. Our analysis is multidisciplinary and integrates legal, psychological, human factors, and work health and safety frameworks, so that findings are methodologically rigorous, practical, and capable of being implemented. Where matters are complex, we triangulate information across sources and methods to identify convergence, interdependency, and divergence, and we use that synthesis to move beyond case specific explanations toward systemic drivers of risk and inefficiency.

 

Judicial and tribunal considerations are built into our approach when our work is intended for use in proceedings, including matters before commissions and courts. We recognise that expert work must be prepared and expressed in a manner that assists the decision-maker impartially, and we ensure our outputs are framed consistently with applicable expert witness codes of conduct, including the principle that the expert’s paramount duty is to the court and that an expert is not an advocate for a party. We also apply the discipline required for admissibility and procedural compliance, including clear articulation of opinions, the material facts and assumptions relied upon, and the reasons and supporting materials for each opinion. Where directions require expert conferencing or joint reporting, we maintain independence of judgment and work co-operatively in accordance with those directions.

 

We maintain independence and integrity throughout delivery, including a structured and proportionate approach to identifying and managing actual, potential, and perceived conflicts of interest aligned with government and regulatory expectations. Our recommendations are implementation focused and designed to create durable uplift, and we support clients through staged pathways where appropriate, moving from analysis and audit to rectification and implementation. We then frame ongoing maintenance and monitoring as requirements and operating conditions change.