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
436 articles safety-indicators-and-metrics
Corrective Action Aging: 7 Metrics Leaders Need
Corrective action aging reveals whether safety learning becomes risk reduction or turns into a backlog that hides exposure from leaders.
occupational-safety
Fleet Safety: 7 Leadership Failures Behind Road Risk
Fleet safety depends on leadership decisions about routes, fatigue, maintenance, contractors, telemetry, and stop-work authority, not only on driver behavior.
occupational-safety
Excavation Permit: 7 Checks Before Breaking Ground
An excavation permit protects people only when leaders verify underground energy, soil behavior, access, supervision, and emergency response before the first cut.
safety-culture
Contractor Safety Culture: 7 Integration Failures Leaders Miss
Contractor safety culture is not created by onboarding slides or badge control. It is built when the host company integrates contractors into planning, supervision, voice, and consequence systems before high-risk work begins.
risk-management
What-If Analysis: 7 Questions Leaders Should Ask
What-If analysis protects non-routine work when leaders test credible failure scenarios before crews accept the plan as safe.
psychological-safety
New Leader Trust: 7 Signals That Make Dissent Safe
New leader trust is built in the first 30 days through visible responses to questions, dissent, bad news, and weak signals, not through speeches about openness.
psychosocial-risks
Complaint Index: 7 Psychosocial Risk Signals
Learn how a complaint index turns HR cases into early psychosocial risk signals for EHS, HR, and executives before silence becomes measurable harm.
risk-management
HAZOP vs Bow-Tie vs LOPA: 7 Selection Tests
Risk method selection improves when leaders match HAZOP, Bow-Tie, LOPA, FMEA, and risk matrices to the decision each one can actually support.
occupational-safety
Emergency Eyewash Stations: 7 Tests Before Chemical Work
Emergency eyewash stations protect workers only when leaders verify placement, flow, access, water quality, drills, and chemical-specific exposure before the job starts.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
Safety KPI Weighting: 6 Dashboard Traps
Safety KPI weighting can reward silence, hide fatal exposure, and make weak sites look green unless leaders audit the behavior behind each score.
