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
635 articles safety-culture
Safety Culture: 5 Gaps That Make Compliance Look Like Control
Safety culture breaks when audits pass, training climbs, and metrics stay green while decision rights, response speed, and field verification stay weak.
psychological-safety
5 insights from Episode 7 with Rodney Rocha
Rodney Rocha's Episode 7 shows how reversed burden of proof, softened warnings, and retaliation against dissent turn safe enough into false comfort.
risk-management
Temporary Change Hold Point: 4 Signals Before Restart
A temporary change hold point stops work when a workaround, altered sequence, or shifted boundary no longer matches the approved plan.
psychosocial-risks
How Cam Stevens Thinks About Technology-Driven Psychosocial Risk
Cam Stevens shows that technology becomes useful only when leaders define the problem, assign ownership, and verify that the field actually changed.
psychosocial-risks
Violence and Harassment: 5 Governance Gaps Directors Keep Missing
A board-level view of violence and harassment governance, focused on the five gaps that keep response weak and leave the work unchanged.
occupational-safety
Hierarchy of Controls Explained: 5 Levels Leaders Use
Hierarchy of controls keeps risk out of the field when leaders choose elimination, substitution, engineering, administrative controls and PPE in order.
occupational-safety
How to Inspect Walking-Working Surfaces Before Warehouse Work Starts
A walking-working-surface inspection works when supervisors walk the real route, verify surface condition, and close fixes before the next shift.
safety-leadership
How Follow-Up Ownership Cut Accident Ratio 50% in 6 Months
A case study on how named follow-up ownership moved a PepsiCo South America accident reduction from signal to field control.
safety-leadership
Safety Walks vs Town Halls vs Skip-Levels: Which Channel Changes Field Risk?
Compare safety walks, town halls, and skip-levels so leaders choose the right channel for field risk, candor, and escalation.
safety-culture
Safety Culture: 5 Distortions That Hide Drift in Plain Sight
Safety culture gets harder to read when leaders trust surveys, attendance, and slogans more than field proof, decision ownership, and response speed.
