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-culture
Hearts and Minds: 7 Culture Traps Leaders Miss
Hearts and Minds can diagnose safety culture only when leaders connect maturity labels to fatal-risk decisions, weak signals, and field authority.
psychosocial-risks
Interpersonal Conflict: 7 Psychosocial Risk Tests
Interpersonal conflict becomes a psychosocial risk when leaders ignore power, work design, safety voice, and repeated friction across teams.
occupational-safety
GHS Hazard Communication: 7 Traps Leaders Miss
GHS hazard communication fails when labels and SDS files stay in compliance binders instead of shaping real decisions before chemical work starts.
safe-behavior
Bystander Effect in Safety: 7 Leadership Failures
A leadership diagnostic on why workers stay silent around visible risk, and how EHS leaders can redesign voice, stop-work, and escalation routines.
psychosocial-risks
Cognitive Fatigue: 7 Safety Signals Leaders Miss
Cognitive fatigue becomes a safety governance risk when leaders treat depleted attention as individual weakness instead of work design evidence.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
LTIFR: 7 Distortions Executives Should Catch
LTIFR helps track injury absence, but it can hide fatal exposure, contractor transfer, underreporting, and weak safety governance.
safe-behavior
Safety Habit Loop: 7 Signals Supervisors Should Track
Safety habit loops reveal routine drift before indicators do, giving supervisors a practical way to catch unsafe behavior while it is still reversible.
mental-health-at-work
Leader Isolation: 7 Mental Health Signals Boards Miss
Executive isolation turns mental health into a governance issue when boards see performance but miss overload, silence, and decision fatigue.
incident-investigation
Columbia Accident: 7 Leadership Signals Still Missed
A Columbia accident leadership analysis for executives who need to catch weak signals, protect dissent, and investigate beyond the visible trigger.
incident-investigation
Witness Interviews: 9 Traps Investigators Miss
Witness interviews fail when they become blame sessions. Use these 9 tests to protect memory, evidence quality, and learning after incidents.
