SarahGoodhew

When it comes to preventing workplace incidents, Sarah provides clients with a unique understanding of the various challenges that may arise. Clients rely on Sarah to help them remain compliant with workplace health and safety laws as they apply them in different jurisdictions throughout Australia and the Asia Pacific region. She is at the forefront of assisting clients with adapting to changes in work health and safety laws, particularly those related to psychosocial workplace hazards and risks. Through her thorough wide-ranging reviews, Sarah is well known for providing straightforward legal counsel and ready-to-apply strategies, so clients can effectively manage workplace safety and health risks—including implementing control measures relating to psychosocial hazards—in the workplace.

When it comes to her clients’ work health and safety obligations, regulatory matters, legal compliance, governance arrangements, and effective incident responses, Sarah draws on her legal experience to impart real-world knowledge and easy-to-follow, practical briefings to C-suite and executives at board meetings and bespoke workplace health and safety briefings. Her guidance not only gives clients peace of mind that they can meet—and indeed exceed—their obligations concerning health and safety at work, but also that they are sufficiently prepared to face the immediate and long-term challenges associated with safety incidents.

When responding to safety incidents, Sarah is a go-to lawyer for leading businesses in Australia. Because Sarah recognises that no two incidents—or organisations—are alike, she works alongside her clients every step of the way to implement strategies to get the best legal and commercial outcomes. When litigation or investigations become unavoidable for clients, Sarah is an accomplished and fierce litigator, particularly when responding to regulator investigations, preparing and defending lengthy and complex work health and safety prosecutions, and representing clients at coronial inquests.

Sarah has gained valuable working knowledge of various aspects of client operations, particularly in the resources, mining, retail, construction, health, and transport sectors, that allows her to provide practical, realistic legal advice—from the intricate knowledge of how her clients' operations work, to how her clients distinguish themselves in their market.

Sarah enjoys her practice at Seyfarth—one of the few firms with a dedicated health and safety team—and working with leading organisations on cases that change the law. She considers herself extremely fortunate to work with the calibre of Seyfarth professionals who work on a raft of varied health and safety issues daily.

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