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
1079 articles safety-leadership
How Dr. Thomas Krause Thinks About Leadership Quality Before Metrics Improve
Episode 11 with Dr. Thomas Krause argues that safety metrics improve only after leaders change the daily decisions, conversations, and conditions behind them.
psychosocial-risks
Workload Calibration Explained: 4 States of Demand, Control, and Recovery
Workload calibration is a practical way to distinguish sustainable demand from exposure that quietly weakens attention, judgment, and recovery. This explainer gives supervisors and EHS managers four states to test before workload becomes a safety event.
safety-culture
How to Test Whether a Safety Rule Works at the Point of Work in 10 Days
Use a ten-day field test to find out whether a safety rule controls the real exposure, survives changed conditions, and gives workers a clear decision boundary.
occupational-safety
When Workers Can Stop the Job, Safety Authority Becomes a Control
The right to stop unsafe work is often presented as a cultural aspiration, yet its real value depends on the operating system around it. In the Headline Podcast documentary panel, former MSHA inspector Gary Pietro and union leader Mike Caputo connect worker authority to enforcement history, legal protection, and the conditions that make refusal credible. For senior leaders, the practical question is not whether workers are told to speak up. It is whether the organization can receive a stop-work decision, protect the person who made it, investigate the condition, and restart only when evidence supports the change.
safety-culture
Safety Culture: 4 Decisions That Show Whether Production Pressure Is Being Managed or Hidden
A safety culture is tested when output, schedule, and protection compete. Leaders reveal the real culture through four decisions about escalation, authority, resources, and recovery after a pressured job.
occupational-safety
Exposure Limits Explained: 4 Numbers Supervisors Should Not Treat as Interchangeable
Exposure limits only guide safe work when supervisors match the number to its source, averaging period, task, and control response. This glossary separates four references that are often treated as interchangeable.
risk-management
How to Run a Control-Owner Interview Before Risk Acceptance in 6 Steps
Use a six-step control-owner interview to test whether a safety control is understood, verified, and bounded before a leader accepts the remaining risk.
risk-management
Texas City: How Production Pressure Broke the Decision Trail
The 2005 Texas City refinery disaster shows how production pressure can separate technical warnings from executive decisions. This case study turns the CSB, Baker Panel, and OSHA record into a practical risk-management test for high-consequence operations.
occupational-safety
High-Risk Work Gates: Permit, Authorization, or Control?
Permit-to-work, task authorization, and control-of-work systems do different jobs. This comparison shows which gate fits the hazard and decision a US operation must manage.
risk-management
Risk Ownership: 4 Decisions That Keep Critical Exposure From Becoming Everyone's Problem
Critical exposure rarely persists because nobody cares. It persists when ownership is implied, divided, or postponed. This article presents four decisions that turn risk ownership into an operating practice rather than a line in a register.
