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
1077 articles occupational-safety
How to Verify a Temporary Guardrail Before Work Starts in 8 Checks
A practical verification method for supervisors who need to confirm that a temporary guardrail can keep people separated from a fall or opening before work begins.
incident-investigation
How Dr. Thomas Krause Thinks About 4 Conditions Before an Incident Investigation Begins
Dr. Thomas Krause argues that incident investigations often fail before the interview, because leaders begin with employee fault instead of testing the conditions that shaped the decision.
safety-leadership
Prevention Budgets: 5 Decisions That Keep Safety Spending Ahead of Incident Costs
Safety spending becomes strategic when leaders decide which controls must be funded, who owns the compromises, and what evidence proves that prevention is working before an incident creates a larger bill.
psychological-safety
Speak-Up Response Explained: 4 States That Shape Psychological Safety
Psychological safety is revealed by what happens after a worker raises a concern. This glossary defines four response states that help supervisors distinguish polite listening from a visible decision loop.
safety-leadership
How to Build a Frontline Risk Escalation Matrix in 30 Days
A practical 30-day method for supervisors and EHS leaders to define risk thresholds, decision rights, escalation routes, and verification points before critical work continues.
incident-investigation
Philadelphia Refinery Fire: 5 Signals That Failed to Change the Work
The June 21, 2019 Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery explosion was not only a failure of refinery equipment and process-safety governance. The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board investigation exposed how incomplete records, weak integrity decisions, and unclear accountability allowed a serious risk to remain present until the system failed catastrophically.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
Near-Miss Rate vs Control Verification vs Exposure Hours: Which Signal Belongs in an Executive Safety Review?
Near-miss rate, control verification, and exposure hours answer different executive questions. This comparison shows when each signal is useful, where it misleads, and how to combine them without hiding serious exposure.
psychosocial-risks
Technology Adoption: 5 Psychosocial Blind Spots
Technology can reduce physical exposure while creating psychosocial risk through role ambiguity, surveillance pressure, and silence during change.
occupational-safety
How Cam Stevens Thinks About When Safety Technology Should Not Be Used
Cam Stevens's Episode 15 argument is not only about choosing better technology. It is also about knowing when not to deploy a tool, because an unnecessary device can add cognitive load, surveillance pressure, and false certainty without improving the control.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
Severity Rate Explained: 3 Readings That Change What the Number Means
Severity rate is useful when leaders treat it as a reading of injury burden rather than a verdict on safety performance. This explainer separates three interpretations, shows how denominator effects distort comparisons, and gives EHS leaders a practical way to place severity rate beside TRIR, LTIFR, and leading signals.
