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 incident-investigation
Near-Miss Classification Explained: 4 Event States That Change the Response
Near-miss classification is useful only when it distinguishes a condition, an exposure, a failed barrier, and a consequence. This glossary shows how each state changes the response.
psychosocial-risks
How to Audit Psychosocial Risk in an Industrial Plant in 30 Days
A 30-day field method for auditing psychosocial risk in an industrial plant by connecting worker experience with workload, shifts, supervision, decision rights, and work-design actions.
safety-leadership
How Tim Page-Bottorff Thinks About Stories That Make Safety Leadership Visible
Tim Page-Bottorff's Episode 10 perspective shows how leaders can use stories to make safety decisions, workload pressure, and follow-through visible in the field.
safety-culture
Worker Voice in Safety: 6 Tests That Separate Participation From Permission-Seeking
Worker participation is not proven by attendance, survey volume, or the number of suggestions collected. It is proven when a concern can reach the right decision owner, change a control or work condition, and return to the people who raised it with visible follow-through. This Headline Podcast analysis uses OSHA employee-involvement requirements, James Reason’s distinction between active and latent failures, and the show’s focus on fearless influence to give senior EHS leaders a practical way to test whether worker voice is changing risk.
occupational-safety
Safety-Critical Task: 4 Conditions Before Work Starts
A safety-critical task is defined by consequence and control dependence. Use four conditions to decide whether work is ready, constrained, paused, or escalated.
occupational-safety
How to Verify a Portable Ladder Before Use in 8 Steps
A portable ladder is ready only when its condition, setup, task, and user controls fit together. This eight-step guide helps supervisors and workers verify the ladder, surrounding area, climbing method, and decision triggers before use.
occupational-safety
Confined-Space Entry Permit vs Atmospheric Monitoring vs Rescue Readiness: Which Control Should Stop the Job?
A confined-space permit authorizes the work, atmospheric monitoring tests live conditions, and rescue readiness limits the consequence of failure. This comparison helps supervisors and EHS leaders decide how the three controls should work together before and during entry.
psychological-safety
Technical Dissent: 4 Blind Spots That Keep Expertise Usable Under Pressure
Technical dissent protects work when people can challenge a decision without losing time, status, or access to the next decision. These four conditions show whether expertise remains usable under pressure.
incident-investigation
How Rodney Rocha Thinks About Bad News Reaching Leaders
Rodney Rocha's Columbia lessons show why leaders must protect bad news, preserve its meaning, and turn it into a safety control.
occupational-safety
Occupational Hygiene Explained: 4 Questions Before You Choose a Control
Occupational hygiene turns exposure evidence into decisions about sources, exposed groups, measurement quality, and controls that can be verified in real work.
