Safety Culture: From Theory to Practice
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Andreza Araújo
Safety Culture Expert | Senior EHS Executive
Andreza Araújo is a safety culture expert and senior EHS executive with more than 25 years of experience in environment, health and safety. She is a Civil Engineer and Occupational Safety Engineer from Unicamp, holds a Master's degree in Environmental Diplomacy from the University of Geneva, and completed sustainability studies at IMD Switzerland.
Andreza has served in Global Head of EHS roles in Fortune 500 environments, leading cultural transformation programs across multinational operations. She has represented Brazil as a speaker at the United Nations in Paris and has spoken at the International Labour Organization in Turin.
She is the author of more than 16 books on safety culture in Portuguese, Spanish, English and German. Her work has earned more than 10 EHS awards, including two recognitions from Indra Nooyi, former PepsiCo CEO.
Formal credentials
- Civil & Safety Engineer (Unicamp)
- M.A. Environmental Diplomacy (University of Geneva)
- Sustainability Cert (IMD Switzerland)
- People Management & Coaching (Ohio University)
- UN Paris speaker representative for Brazil
- ILO Turin speaker
- LinkedIn Top Voice
- Indra Nooyi PepsiCo CEO recognition (2x)
Selected books
Cultura de Segurança
Andreza Araújo
Liderança Antifrágil
Andreza Araújo
A Ilusão da Conformidade
Andreza Araújo
Sorte ou Capacidade
Andreza Araújo
Muito Além do Zero
Andreza Araújo
Antifragile Leadership
Andreza Araújo
Podcasts she hosts
Headline Podcast in English
Host and editorial lead of the English-language podcast, with conversations on safety leadership, EHS and organizational culture.
Headline Podcast in Portuguese
Host of the Portuguese-language podcast, with interviews and conversations on safety culture and EHS.
O Conselho de Segurança
Host of this Portuguese spin-off, with debates and guidance on safety leadership and culture.
Articles by this author
433 articles safety-leadership
Post-Acquisition Plant Manager in 90 Days: What to Do in the First Quarter
A practical 90-day plan for plant managers who inherit a site after acquisition and need to stabilize controls, decision rights, and escalation before integration turns cosmetic.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
Safety Decision Latency: 6 Failures That Make Clean Metrics Arrive Too Late
Safety decision latency is the gap between a signal appearing and a leader changing the work. Stale cadence and weak ownership turn dashboards into late decisions.
psychosocial-risks
Workload Calibration Explained: 4 States of Demand, Control, and Recovery
Workload calibration keeps demand, control, and recovery aligned before psychosocial risk turns into drift.
safety-culture
How to Diagnose Compliance Theater Before the Next Audit in 30 Minutes
A practical safety-culture routine for leaders who want to find out whether audit readiness is real or only appears when someone announces a visit.
safety-leadership
How 250+ Projects Turned Executive Sponsorship Into Decision Discipline
A Headline Podcast F5 case study on how executive sponsorship became a field decision discipline, using Andreza Araujo's 250+ project record and a PepsiCo South America example.
psychological-safety
Anonymous Reporting vs Supervisor Conversations vs Technical Dissent: Which Voice Route Fits the Risk?
Compare three safety voice routes so leaders can match anonymity, supervisor response, and technical dissent to the type of risk signal they actually have.
occupational-safety
Permit-to-Work: 6 Distortions That Turn Authorization Into Theater
A diagnostic look at permit-to-work systems that authorize work on paper while leaving the field boundary, handover, and isolation chain weak.
psychosocial-risks
Technology Change: 5 Blind Spots That Turn Psychosocial Risk Into Drift
Technology change becomes psychosocial risk when leaders roll out the tool before they redesign roles, speak-up paths, workload, and ownership.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
Safety Metric Freshness Explained: 4 States That Matter
A quick explainer that shows how to tell whether a safety metric is current, delayed, stale, or frozen before leaders act on old data.
occupational-safety
How to Run a Start-of-Shift Hazard Scan in 15 Minutes
A practical first-hour hazard scan for supervisors who need a clear start, slow, or stop decision before work begins.
