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-culture
How Siemens Thinks About Safety Culture Beyond Compliance
The Siemens safety conversation shows why compliance is only a floor. This episode companion explains how leaders can distinguish visible activity from real ownership, give worker participation decision power, and test whether safety remains part of strategy when production pressure rises.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
Indicator Drift Explained: 3 Failure Modes That Make Safety Data Look Better Than Work
A safety indicator can remain precise while becoming less useful. Indicator drift begins when definitions, sampling, ownership, or decision rules change without the measure being recalibrated. This explainer shows how leaders can recognize three failure modes and restore a metric’s connection to real work.
occupational-safety
How to Verify Chemical Transfer Readiness in 20 Minutes
A 20-minute readiness check can expose missing barriers before chemical transfer begins. This guide helps supervisors verify people, equipment, containment, and response.
psychological-safety
How Rodney Rocha Thinks About Truth Before Hierarchy Softens It
This F8 companion develops Rodney Rocha�?Ts Episode 7 argument that safety depends on preserving truth, uncertainty, and respectful dissent before hierarchy turns warnings into reassurance.
risk-management
Risk Acceptance: 5 Tests That Keep a Signed Decision From Becoming a Safety Blind Spot
Risk acceptance becomes dangerous when a signature is treated as proof that exposure is controlled. These five tests help leaders verify decision authority, assumptions, barriers, expiry, and field evidence before accepted risk becomes routine risk.
occupational-safety
Occupational Asthma Explained: 4 Work-Related Patterns Leaders Must Separate
Occupational asthma is not one workplace pattern. This explainer separates four work-related patterns and shows why symptom recognition must lead to exposure control, medical evaluation, and a changed work plan.
occupational-safety
How to Prepare a Chemical Receipt Before the First Container Arrives
A practical eight-step field guide for supervisors and EHS teams that need to make chemical receipt safer before a container reaches the workplace.
incident-investigation
How the Bhopal Plant Turned a Local Decision Into a Global Process-Safety Lesson
The Bhopal disaster shows why major-accident prevention cannot remain a local plant issue. This case study connects barrier health, leadership governance, and emergency readiness to practical decisions for chemical operations.
risk-management
Near-Miss Review vs Control Verification vs Risk Register Update: Where Should a Recurring Exposure Go?
A recurring exposure can appear as a near miss, a weak control, or an outdated risk entry, yet each signal requires a different management response. This comparison helps supervisors, EHS leaders, and operations managers choose the right route without turning every concern into a generic investigation or a paperwork exercise.
occupational-safety
Occupational Hygiene Sampling: 5 Decisions That Can Turn Reassuring Data Into Exposure Risk
Exposure data can look reassuring while the work remains under-sampled. This F1 diagnostic examines five sampling decisions that can hide peak tasks, weak controls, changing conditions, and workers whose exposure is not represented by the average result.
