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
1078 articles safety-culture
Safety Assurance Explained: 4 Evidence Layers That Keep Controls Credible
Safety assurance is the evidence chain that shows whether a critical control is designed for the exposure, working in the field, owned by the right function, and strong enough to support a management decision.
mental-health-at-work
How to Run a Fatigue Risk Conversation Before Overtime Is Approved
A practical eight-step conversation helps supervisors test fatigue risk before overtime, protect safety-critical decisions, and document when the work plan must change.
safety-culture
5 Insights from Siemens on Safety Culture
A Siemens safety-culture companion shows why compliance becomes credible only when leaders verify decisions, worker voice, and control performance in daily work.
mental-health-at-work
Concentration Loss at Work: 5 Decisions That Keep Safety-Critical Shifts Safe
Concentration loss during safety-critical work is both a human signal and an operational decision point. This F1 diagnostic shows supervisors and EHS leaders how to protect the task, review workload and handover conditions, connect workers with appropriate support, and make return decisions safe and reviewable.
occupational-safety
Hierarchy of Controls Explained: 5 Levels and Their Limits
The hierarchy of controls is a decision order, not a poster. This explainer shows what each level changes, where it becomes fragile, and how leaders can verify protection.
mental-health-at-work
How to Lead a Safe Return-to-Work Conversation After Mental Health Leave
A safe return-to-work conversation connects human support with operational control. This guide helps supervisors prepare the meeting, discuss functional needs without diagnosing, confirm work limits, match the first assignment to available control, protect privacy, and review whether the return plan works in practice.
safety-culture
Upper Big Branch: When Production Pressure Became a Safety-Culture Failure
The Upper Big Branch mine disaster is a case study in how safety culture becomes visible through production decisions, control assurance, warning signals, and leadership ownership.
risk-management
Risk Register vs Risk Appetite vs Decision Log: Which Tool Should a Plant Leader Trust?
A risk register describes exposure, risk appetite sets an acceptance boundary, and a decision log preserves accountability. This comparison shows plant leaders how to connect the three tools without confusing documentation with control.
safety-culture
Safety Culture: 4 Gaps That Make Compliance Look Like Capability
A safety culture is not proven by completed forms. This diagnostic explains four gaps between compliance and capability, then gives EHS leaders a focused test for closing them.
safety-culture
How Clive Lloyd Thinks About Trust as the First Safety-Culture Test
Clive Lloyd's Episode 12 conversation treats trust as an operating condition that leaders can test through decisions, reporting responses, and visible changes in work.
