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 mental-health-at-work
How Tim Page-Bottorff Thinks About Burnout Before Performance Drops
Tim Page-Bottorff's Headline Podcast conversation reframes burnout as a leadership and operational risk that can remain hidden inside strong performance. The practical lesson is that self-discipline must include noticing depletion, protecting decision quality, and changing the work conditions that keep exhausting attention.
safe-behavior
Observation Quality Explained: 4 Evidence Levels for Safer Work
A recorded safety observation is only an input. Four evidence levels show how noticing becomes context, control testing, and a safer change in the work.
occupational-safety
How to Screen an IECEx Hazardous-Area Change Before Work Starts
A practical F2 guide for supervisors, EHS managers, and engineers who need to screen hazardous-area changes before work starts.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
How Cam Stevens Thinks About Voice Data Before It Becomes a Safety Metric
Episode 15 with Cam Stevens reframes voice technology as a measurement decision. The useful question is not how much data a tool can collect, but whether the signal improves a safety decision without damaging trust.
mental-health-at-work
World Suicide Prevention Day at Work: 5 Leadership Blind Spots That Keep Help Late
World Suicide Prevention Day can expose whether a company has a usable path to help or only a well-designed awareness campaign. This F1 diagnostic shows five leadership blind spots that keep support late.
occupational-safety
Confined-Space Entry Explained: Four Safety Gates Before a Permit Is Trusted
A practical explainer for supervisors and EHS leaders who need to distinguish a completed confined-space permit from a credible entry decision.
risk-management
How to Review a Temporary Risk Waiver Before Work Continues
Temporary risk waivers can keep work moving while a normal control is unavailable, but only when the changed exposure, compensating controls, expiry conditions, and decision owner are explicit. This Headline guide shows supervisors and managers how to review the waiver before work continues and how to close it without normalizing the exception.
incident-investigation
How Piper Alpha Turned Emergency Planning Into a Leadership Test
The Piper Alpha disaster was not only an equipment failure. The Cullen Report showed how platform design, permit communication, emergency response, and management assumptions interacted during a rapidly escalating event. This case study translates those findings into an incident-investigation discipline for safety leaders.
incident-investigation
AI Triage vs Supervisor Review vs Formal Investigation: Which Route Fits a Safety Signal?
A decision comparison for EHS leaders choosing how to route safety signals without letting automation replace judgment or let serious risk wait in a queue.
incident-investigation
Incident Investigation: 6 Failures That Keep Serious Risk Alive
A framework for incident reviews that must change exposure, not just produce polished reports. It links evidence quality, ownership, field verification, and transfer to comparable work.
