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
634 articles risk-management
Risk Register vs Exception Register vs Safety Decision Log: Which Record Should Govern High-Risk Work?
Risk registers describe exposure, exception registers contain deviations, and safety decision logs preserve the reasoning behind difficult calls. The right governance model uses all three without confusing their jobs.
safety-leadership
Safety Capital Allocation: 8 Blind Spots That Distort Board Decisions
Safety capital is not effective because the budget is larger. It is effective when each major allocation changes a material exposure, strengthens a dependable control, and remains governed after commissioning. This F1 diagnostic examines eight board-level blind spots that turn safety spending into activity without reliable risk reduction.
safety-leadership
6 Decisions from Episode 11 with Dr. Thomas Krause
Episode 11 of Headline Podcast argues that safety performance follows leadership quality, felt value, and the difficulty people face when they try to do work correctly.
mental-health-at-work
Presenteeism Explained: 4 Forms of Hidden Capacity Loss
Presenteeism is not simply being at work while ill. It is a measurable loss of usable capacity that managers often confuse with commitment, performance variation, or a normal response to pressure.
risk-management
How to Set a Risk Acceptance Expiry Date Before Temporary Work Begins in 10 Checks
A practical F2 guide for EHS and operations leaders who need to time-bound temporary risk acceptance, define restoration evidence and prevent workarounds from becoming routine exposure.
psychosocial-risks
How Cam Stevens Thinks About Technology as a Safety Signal
Episode 15 with Cam Stevens argues that safety technology should begin with a clearly defined work problem, because a catalog of tools can obscure psychosocial risk instead of reducing it.
safe-behavior
Decision Fatigue in Safety: 5 Distortions That Make Safe Behavior Harder to Sustain
Decision fatigue is not only a productivity problem. In safety-critical work, repeated choices can make shortcuts feel reasonable, weaken challenge, and hide control drift. This diagnostic explains five distortions that affect safe behavior and gives leaders a practical way to redesign the work around better decisions.
psychosocial-risks
Psychosocial Risk Appetite Explained: 4 Thresholds Leaders Must Define
Psychosocial risk appetite is the governance boundary between recognizing a work-design hazard and accepting continued exposure. This explainer separates four thresholds that help HR, EHS, and operations leaders decide when to monitor, act, escalate, or stop a condition.
mental-health-at-work
How to Run a Rest-Break Check Before Overtime Is Approved in 8 Steps
Overtime approval is a safety decision when fatigue can change attention, reaction time, judgment, and the quality of a control check. This eight-step guide helps supervisors assess recovery capacity before adding hours to a shift, without turning a sensitive conversation into a medical diagnosis.
safety-leadership
Safety Governance Explained: 4 Layers for Risk Decisions
Safety governance is the structure that turns risk appetite into accountable decisions, verified controls, and timely escalation across the organization.
