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 Andrea Hernandez Thinks About Safety Beyond Zero Harm
Andrea Hernandez's Episode 8 conversation offers a practical test for safety strategy. A zero-harm program may have served one period of organizational need, yet a mature system must evolve when the risk picture, workforce, and business context change. Hernandez connects people-centered leadership, team-level psychological safety, technology decisions, and well-being to one central question: what problem are leaders actually trying to solve?
safety-indicators-and-metrics
Safety Data Lineage Explained: 4 Questions Behind a Trustworthy Dashboard
Safety data lineage is the trace from a field observation or operational event to the metric shown to leaders. This explainer defines four questions that reveal whether a dashboard preserves context, ownership, timing, and decision relevance instead of presenting polished numbers with weak evidence.
safe-behavior
How to Give Behavioral Feedback Without Demotivating the Worker
Behavioral feedback improves safety only when it changes the work instead of labeling the worker. This practical F2 guide shows supervisors how to observe precisely, ask before judging, connect behavior to risk, and verify that the safer choice survives production pressure.
psychological-safety
How Andrea Hernandez Thinks About Psychological Safety Before Global Strategy
Episode 8 of the Headline Podcast presents a practical challenge to leaders who treat psychological safety as a global statement or an annual survey score. Andrea Hernandez argues that people-centred safety strategy begins with the team that shares the workday. The conversation links context, empowerment, well-being, technology choices, and speaking up, showing why a corporate promise cannot compensate for a local team that punishes uncertainty. The useful leadership question is not whether the company has declared psychological safety. It is whether a supervisor has made it safe enough for a worker to raise the next concern.
psychosocial-risks
Interpersonal Conflict at Work: 5 Distortions That Turn Disagreement Into Psychosocial Risk
Disagreement is not automatically harmful. It becomes a psychosocial risk when unclear roles, weak escalation routes, unequal power, or impossible delivery conditions turn an ordinary difference into recurring strain and silence.
safe-behavior
Safety Dialogue Explained: 4 Conversations That Change the Work
A safety dialogue is a structured conversation that helps people recognize exposure, test whether a control is usable, make a decision, and strengthen the next safe action. This explainer separates four conversation types that supervisors often blend together, from the brief pre-task check to the deeper discussion after a deviation.
mental-health-at-work
How to Respond to Concentration Loss During a Safety-Critical Shift
Concentration loss during safety-critical work is both a human signal and an operational control issue. This guide helps supervisors respond without diagnosing, protect the immediate task, understand work conditions, connect the worker with appropriate support, and verify that controls are safe before return.
incident-investigation
Flixborough: The Process Change That Exposed a Leadership Failure
The Flixborough explosion shows how a temporary process modification can become a major-hazard decision when technical review, operating limits, and leadership ownership do not keep pace with the changed configuration.
safety-culture
Safety Culture Evidence: Survey vs Field Observation vs Decision Audit, Which Signal Should Leaders Trust?
Safety culture surveys, field observations, and decision audits reveal different parts of organizational reality. This comparison helps leaders choose the evidence source that fits the decision, then test it against the conditions and choices shaping work.
risk-management
Control Handoffs: 4 Frictions That Let Critical Risk Cross the Boundary
A control is not reliable merely because one team installed it. Critical risk becomes harder to manage when ownership, evidence, limits, and restart decisions cross organizational boundaries without a visible handoff.
