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
6 Insights from Episode 15 with Cam Stevens on Technology Decisions in Safety
Episode 15 with Cam Stevens makes a practical leadership case for slowing down the technology conversation before speeding up adoption. His argument is not anti-technology. It is a demand for clearer problem definition, better evidence, and a deliberate decision about where technology should not be used. For safety leaders, the conversation matters because a new tool can improve the human experience in one workflow while creating surveillance, dependency, or psychosocial pressure in another. The six insights translate the episode into a decision discipline that EHS managers can use with operations, IT, HR, and frontline teams.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
Leading Indicators Explained: 4 Checks That Change Decisions
A leading indicator is useful when it reveals whether a preventive control is working and prompts a decision before harm occurs. This explainer defines four checks that separate decision-ready indicators from activity counts, including exposure relevance, control evidence, ownership, and action traceability.
risk-management
How to Run a Temporary Change Review Before Work Starts
Temporary changes become high-risk when the site treats them as minor exceptions. This practical guide shows supervisors, engineers, and EHS leaders how to review a temporary modification, assign control ownership, test the new conditions, and define a safe return to the normal state before work begins.
safety-leadership
How Alanna Ball Thinks About Safety Networks When Expertise Is Not Enough
Episode 13 with Alanna Ball makes a useful leadership argument for safety professionals. Technical knowledge matters, but it cannot carry every decision, every career transition, or every worker who feels unseen. The conversation connects community, representation, vulnerability, trust, and neurodiversity to the daily work of building safer workplaces. Its practical lesson is that a safety network is not a social extra. It is an operating condition that helps people find information, challenge assumptions, and pass opportunity forward.
occupational-safety
Temporary Lighting: 4 Gaps That Turn a Short-Term Fix Into a Serious Exposure
Temporary lighting becomes a safety control only when the installation, electrical protection, work visibility, inspection ownership, and change response remain reliable throughout the job.
safe-behavior
Behavioral Competence Explained: 6 Proof Points That Show Whether Training Transfers
Behavioral competence is more than knowing a safety rule or completing a training module. This explainer defines six proof points that help supervisors distinguish attendance from transfer, including task decisions, adaptation, peer communication, recovery from error, and control verification.
psychological-safety
How to Run a Fair Speak-Up Case Review in 14 Days
A speak-up channel creates an opening, but the case review determines whether people see protection, fair accountability, and a visible decision. This 14-day guide shows safety and HR leaders how to review a concern without losing evidence, exposing the reporter, or confusing a difficult conversation with a completed action.
incident-investigation
How Deepwater Horizon Turned Warning Signals Into a Leadership Failure
Deepwater Horizon was not a single technical mistake. It was a chain of warning signals that did not change the decision, because contractors, engineers, supervisors, and leaders did not share one escalation standard for a high-consequence well-control risk.
safety-leadership
Stop-Work Authority vs Decision Rights vs Field Escalation: Which Route Fits Critical Risk?
Stop-work authority, decision-rights matrices, and field risk escalation matrices solve different safety-leadership problems. Compare their speed, authority, evidence, and scope so critical risk reaches the right decision without waiting in a queue.
safety-leadership
Safety Leadership: 5 Distortions That Make Fast Decisions Look Strong
A fast safety decision is not automatically a strong one. Leaders create control when speed preserves evidence, names ownership, protects dissent, and makes the next verification visible.
