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 risk-management
Hierarchy of Controls Explained for Real Work Decisions
The hierarchy of controls is not a poster or a ranking exercise. It is a decision method that helps leaders remove exposure, strengthen barriers, and avoid treating worker effort as the main control.
risk-management
How to Prepare a Risk Register for the Weekly Work Plan
A risk register becomes useful when it changes the weekly work plan. This eight-step method helps supervisors and EHS practitioners connect each material exposure to a named owner, a working control, current evidence, and a decision boundary before work is scheduled.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
How Corrie Pitzer Thinks About Risk Competence Before Metrics Can Be Trusted
Corrie Pitzer explains why safety metrics need risk competence, field attention, and control evidence before leaders can trust a quiet record.
psychological-safety
Psychological Safety at Work: 5 Signals That Silence Critical Information
Psychological safety is not a mood survey or a soft leadership promise. It is the operating condition that determines whether people report weak signals early, challenge a risky plan, and help leaders correct exposure before harm occurs.
occupational-safety
Safety-Critical Elements Explained: 4 Barrier Trust Tests
Safety-critical elements are safeguards whose failure could create a major consequence. These four tests help leaders verify that each barrier remains dependable in real work.
occupational-safety
How to Verify a Lifting Plan Before the First Load
A lifting plan is ready only when the load, equipment, people, route, and stop conditions are clear enough to verify before movement begins.
incident-investigation
Farmington Mine, 1968: When a Fatality Count Became a Governance Test
The Farmington No. 9 explosion killed 78 miners in 1968 and helped trigger the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. Its enduring lesson is not only technical control. It is how leaders convert catastrophic evidence into decisions that remain visible after the memorials, hearings, and headlines fade.
safety-leadership
Executive Review vs Site Review vs Task-Level Review: Which Governance Layer Should Own a Safety Decision?
Safety decisions fail when the review layer lacks either proximity to the work or authority to change the condition. This comparison explains when task-level, site-level, and executive reviews should own a decision, how evidence should drive escalation, and how leaders verify that governance changed the work.
safety-leadership
Safety Decision Latency in U.S. Plants: 3 Tests That Keep Critical Risk Visible
A safety concern can be reported on time and still remain dangerous when the organization delays ownership, authorizes work without evidence, or closes the conversation before the control is verified. This Headline Podcast analysis frames safety decision latency as a leadership problem in U.S. plants and gives plant managers three tests for finding where critical risk is waiting for a decision.
psychological-safety
How Alanna Ball Thinks About Imposter Syndrome as a Safety Signal
Alanna Ball's Episode 13 perspective shows why imposter syndrome can be a psychological-safety signal when people lack visibility, belonging, or permission to challenge decisions.
