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 psychosocial-risks
How Clive Lloyd Thinks About Trust Before Safety Risk Becomes Silent
Episode 12 with Clive Lloyd shows why trust is a psychosocial risk control, because people stop sharing bad news when compliance pressure outruns care.
safety-leadership
Decision Latency Explained: 4 Stages from Concern to Control
Decision latency is the time between a credible safety concern and a verified control in the work. This glossary explains four stages of delay, how to distinguish them, and why leaders should measure the path from concern to action instead of treating escalation as a communication problem.
safe-behavior
Safety Observation Explained: 4 Evidence Levels That Separate Coaching From Control
Safety observations are often treated as conversations, counts, or coaching records. This explainer defines four evidence levels that show whether an observation merely describes behavior or actually strengthens a safety control at the point of work.
incident-investigation
Root Cause What, Not Who: Tim Page-Bottorff's Test for Better Incident Reviews
Tim Page-Bottorff's Headline Podcast conversation offers a precise test for incident reviews. Ask what conditions produced the event, rather than who can be made responsible for it, then turn the answer into an owned and verified change in the work.
safe-behavior
Behavioral Drift: 5 Signals That Show a Safe Procedure Is No Longer Being Used
A procedure can remain technically correct while the work quietly moves away from it. This F1 analysis identifies five signals of behavioral drift, explains why each signal matters, and gives supervisors a practical way to reconnect written controls with the decisions people make under real production pressure.
safe-behavior
Safety Observation Explained: 4 Evidence Levels That Separate Coaching From Control
Safety observations are often treated as conversations, counts, or coaching records. This explainer defines four evidence levels that show whether an observation merely describes behavior or actually strengthens a safety control at the point of work.
occupational-safety
How to Build a Lifting Plan for a Non-Routine Lift in 10 Steps
A non-routine lift should not start because a crane and a qualified operator are available. This ten-step guide helps supervisors and lift planners turn load information, rigging selection, ground conditions, roles, communication, and stop criteria into a field-ready lifting plan.
incident-investigation
How Piper Alpha Changed Major-Hazard Safety Governance
The Piper Alpha disaster was not only a process-safety catastrophe. The public inquiry exposed a governance problem in which permits, maintenance information, emergency arrangements, and decision authority did not work as one system. This case study follows the documented shift toward safety-case regulation and extracts practical questions for leaders who need evidence that major hazards are controlled before work begins.
occupational-safety
Permit-to-Work vs Field Verification vs Control-Owner Signoff: Which Gate Should Stop High-Risk Work?
Permit-to-work, field verification, and control-owner signoff answer different safety questions. This comparison helps plant leaders choose the right stop gate when authorization, field conditions, and critical-control ownership do not align.
safety-leadership
Safety Leadership: 6 Frictions That Keep Critical Risk Waiting for a Decision
Critical risk often remains open because the organization has not made the decision easy to see, own, fund, and verify. This F1 analysis identifies six leadership frictions that delay action, then gives executives and site leaders a practical way to move from concern to a defensible decision without confusing activity with control.