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 risk-management
How Corrie Pitzer Thinks About Verification After Risk Controls Are Chosen
Episode 9 with Corrie Pitzer reframes risk competence as the ability to verify whether a chosen control still matches the work, rather than treating a signed procedure as proof that exposure is managed.
psychological-safety
Voice Climate Explained: 6 Signals That Show Whether Speak-Up Has a Real Route
Voice climate is the operating condition that shapes whether people raise concerns, challenge a plan, and expect a meaningful response. This explainer defines the concept, separates it from psychological safety and trust, and presents six signals that help supervisors and leaders test whether speak-up has a real route into a decision.
safe-behavior
How to Reconnect a Safe Procedure to Field Decisions in 14 Days
A safe procedure only works when it supports real field decisions. This 14-day workflow helps supervisors observe the gap, repair the control, test the revision, and close the feedback loop with the crew.
safe-behavior
8 Insights from Episode 14 with Michael Emery
Episode 14 with Michael Emery shows why safety coaching depends on disciplined questions, listening, and field verification rather than correction alone.
safe-behavior
Safety Coaching: 5 Traps That Keep Supervisors Correcting the Wrong Behavior
Safety coaching often fails before the conversation begins. If supervisors treat every deviation as a personal choice, they miss unclear plans, weak controls, production pressure, and task conditions that make the same behavior predictable. This diagnostic identifies five traps that keep coaching focused on the wrong problem.
incident-investigation
Evidence Contamination Explained: 4 Moments That Weaken Incident Findings
Evidence contamination begins when the incident record changes before investigators have preserved what was observed, measured, or said. This glossary explains four moments where contamination enters, how to distinguish a damaged record from an incomplete one, and what leaders can do to protect findings without turning the review into a blame exercise.
psychological-safety
How to Build a Bad-News Response Routine for Plant Leaders in 30 Days
Plant leaders do not create psychological safety by asking people to speak up and then disappearing into a workflow. This 30-day F2 guide shows how to receive bad news, protect the work, decide visibly, and close the loop without turning every concern into a blame exercise.
incident-investigation
How Seveso Changed Major-Hazard Safety From Site Rules to Public Accountability
The 1976 Seveso accident changed major-hazard safety by moving accountability beyond the plant boundary. This incident-investigation case explains how prevention, emergency planning, public information, and inspection became one governance system.
occupational-safety
Lockout/Tagout vs Machine Guarding vs Interlocked Access: Which Control Fits the Energy Exposure?
Lockout/tagout, machine guarding, and interlocked access solve different safety problems. This comparison helps maintenance, engineering, EHS, and operations leaders choose the primary control by task state, access requirement, and energy exposure.
mental-health-at-work
Return-to-Work Plans: 5 Failures That Leave Safety Decisions Unclear
Returning after a mental-health absence is not a handover from the clinic to the line manager. It is a work-design decision that must connect functional capacity, job demands, privacy, temporary controls, and follow-up. This critical diagnostic identifies five failures that leave managers guessing and workers exposed.