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 psychological-safety
How Rodney Rocha Thinks About Assumptions Before Safety-Critical Decisions
Episode 7 with Rodney Rocha reframes safety-critical assumptions as leadership decisions that need visible evidence, ownership, temporary controls, and reopening triggers.
mental-health-at-work
Moral Injury at Work Explained for Supervisors: When Ethical Strain Signals a Work-Design Problem
Moral injury at work can appear when people believe they were forced to violate their values or abandon care standards. This supervisor-focused explainer connects ethical strain to work design, decision pressure, and practical safety action.
risk-management
How to Run a Risk Matrix Calibration Workshop in 30 Days
A risk matrix is useful only when different teams apply its definitions and decision thresholds in compatible ways. This 30-day F2 guide shows EHS managers how to calibrate ratings with operations, engineering, maintenance, and frontline supervisors without turning the workshop into a color debate.
safety-culture
How A Day To Remember Thinks About Safety That Looks Fine on Paper
The A Day To Remember documentary, narrated by Andreza Araujo, revisits the 1968 Farmington Mine disaster and asks why a workplace can look safe in reports while conditions remain dangerous. Its central lesson is practical: safety culture is tested by whether people can challenge a decision, whether leaders verify conditions in the field, and whether records preserve uncomfortable evidence instead of smoothing it away.
incident-investigation
Incident Reviews: 5 Distortions That Hide Warning Evidence
Incident reviews often fail before the formal report is written. Warning evidence is filtered by classification, hindsight, incomplete interviews, weak barrier analysis, and corrective actions that close on paper while exposure remains. This diagnostic shows leaders how to preserve the signal that serious-risk investigations need.
safety-leadership
Safety Decision Rights Explained: 4 Ownership Levels for High-Consequence Work
Safety decision rights define who can approve a task, pause exposure, escalate uncertainty, and authorize a restart. This explainer separates decision rights from job titles and shows four ownership levels that help leaders keep authority visible when work changes.
occupational-safety
How to Run a Hot-Work Readiness Check Before the First Spark in 11 Steps
Hot work becomes dangerous when a signed permit is mistaken for proof that the worksite is ready. This 11-step guide helps supervisors verify the area, ignition controls, atmosphere, fire protection, communication, and stop-work conditions before welding, cutting, or grinding begins.
risk-management
How Bhopal Exposed the Cost of Unowned Process Risk
The Bhopal disaster was not only a chemical-release event. It was a risk-management failure in which hazard knowledge, maintenance, operating discipline, emergency readiness, and public accountability were not held together by clear ownership.
incident-investigation
Event Timeline vs Causal Map vs Barrier Review: Which Investigation Lens Fits the Evidence?
An event timeline, a causal map, and a barrier review answer different investigation questions. Match the method to the evidence so the final report changes a control instead of merely describing an incident.
risk-management
Control Assurance: 6 Tests That Show a Critical Control Works Outside the Audit
A critical control can look complete in a risk register while the exposure remains active in the field. This F1 diagnostic explains six tests that move control assurance beyond paperwork, including ownership, timing, degraded conditions, handover, and proof of response.