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 safe-behavior
How to Turn Behavioral Observation Data Into a Task Redesign Plan in 21 Days
Behavioral observation becomes useful when repeated patterns change the task, not only the conversation. This 21-day F2 guide shows supervisors how to convert field evidence into a focused redesign plan.
risk-management
Cam Stevens on Safety Technology Before Adoption
Cam Stevens argues that safety technology should begin with a defined operational problem, because tools chosen first can add cost, noise, and psychosocial risk.
occupational-safety
Night Work Safety: 4 Signals That Daylight Metrics Miss
Night work creates a safety exposure that ordinary daytime dashboards often hide. This diagnostic guide shows four signals that reveal when fatigue, reduced supervision, and degraded controls are changing the risk of a shift.
safety-leadership
Control Ownership Explained: 4 Decision Rights That Keep Critical Risk Owned
Control ownership is more than naming a department. This Headline Podcast explainer defines four decision rights that make safety-critical controls accountable, verifiable, and changeable when conditions shift.
psychosocial-risks
How to Review Psychosocial Risk After a Shift Pattern Change
A practical eight-step method for EHS leaders and supervisors to test whether a new roster has changed workload, recovery, control, or escalation conditions before those changes become normal.
incident-investigation
Piper Alpha: How a Permit Handover Became a Catastrophic Control Failure
The Piper Alpha disaster is often remembered as an offshore fire, but the deeper case is about information that did not travel with the work. This narrative case study examines how permit handover, isolation status, emergency communication, and barrier ownership interacted before the 1988 catastrophe, then turns the lessons into a practical test for high-risk operations.
risk-management
HAZOP vs Bow-Tie vs FMEA: Which Method Fits a Process-Safety Decision?
HAZOP, Bow-Tie, and FMEA answer different process-safety questions. This comparison helps engineering, operations, maintenance, and EHS leaders match each method to design deviations, barrier assurance, or equipment and task failure modes.
safety-culture
Safety Meetings: 5 Distortions That Hide Critical Risk
Safety meetings become valuable when they change a decision, strengthen a control, or make escalation easier. Five common distortions can make a completed meeting look safer than the work actually is.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
Safety Dashboard Blindness: 6 Decisions That Turn Green Metrics Into Risk
A green safety dashboard does not prove that critical risk is controlled. The useful test is whether each metric changes a decision about exposure, resources, supervision, or recovery before an event forces the issue.
safety-leadership
The First Line of Care in Safety Leadership Explained: 4 Responsibilities
The first line of care turns safety leadership into an operating discipline. This explainer defines four responsibilities that make risk visible, owned, and actionable before work continues.
