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 risk-management
How to Test a Safety Escalation Route Before a Shutdown in 10 Steps
A practical F2 guide for maintenance managers and EHS leaders who need to test safety escalation before shutdown pressure exposes gaps in authority, communication, evidence, and restart decisions.
psychological-safety
How A Day To Remember Thinks About Memory Before Safety Lessons Fade
A Day To Remember shows why safety memory must change present authority, reporting routes, and control checks. The 1968 Farmington Mine #9 disaster remains relevant when records say safe enough while workers do not feel safe enough to speak.
safety-leadership
Risk Trade-Offs in Safety Leadership: 4 Blind Spots That Turn Pressure Into Exposure
Safety leaders make trade-offs every day, even when the organization avoids naming them. This article shows how production pressure, weak authority, stale evidence, and silent exceptions turn a reasonable operational compromise into unmanaged exposure.
safety-culture
Psychological Contract Explained: 4 Signals Leaders Can Test in Safety Culture
The psychological contract is the set of unwritten expectations between people and the organization. In safety culture, it becomes visible when leaders test whether promises about protection, voice, fairness, and follow-through survive operational pressure.
safe-behavior
How to Reset Near-Miss Reporting in 21 Days
A practical 21-day reset for supervisors and EHS teams that need better near-miss information, faster decisions, and visible follow-through instead of a larger pile of forms.
safety-leadership
What 2,300 Behavior-Based Safety Projects Revealed About Leadership Quality
A five-year review of 2,300 behavior-based safety projects points to a conclusion that many programs avoid. The decisive variable was not how far the initiative reached into the workforce, but the quality of leadership that surrounded it.
incident-investigation
TapRooT vs Apollo vs Tripod Beta: Which Investigation Method Fits the Evidence?
TapRooT, Apollo and Tripod Beta can all support serious incident investigations, but they do not create the same decision path. This comparison explains which method fits the evidence, the exposure and the action that leaders need to approve.
safety-leadership
Risk Appetite in Safety Leadership: 3 Decisions That Shape Real Exposure
Risk appetite is not a sentence in a governance document. It is visible in the decisions leaders make when production pressure, uncertainty, and control costs collide.
psychological-safety
3 Insights from the A Day To Remember Live Panel on Safety Voice
The live A Day To Remember panel connects the Farmington Mine #9 disaster to a practical leadership question: what makes it possible for workers to challenge an unsafe condition before the organization normalizes it? Gary Pietro and Mike Caputo describe how law, worker representation, and visible evidence changed the conditions around safety voice.
risk-management
Control Confidence Explained: 4 Evidence States Before High-Risk Work
Control confidence is the evidence behind a safety decision. A control should not be treated as ready merely because it appears in a procedure, permit, or risk register. Leaders need to distinguish planned, present, tested, and sustained control states before high-risk work begins.
