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 to Prepare Control Owners for a Safety Audit Without Staging the Evidence
A practical F2 guide for EHS managers who need control owners to explain purpose, evidence, failure signals, escalation, and recent field decisions without staging the audit.
risk-management
Control Release Explained: 4 Conditions That Should Stop High-Risk Work
Control release is not a signature at the bottom of a permit. It is a named decision that high-risk work can begin because the critical controls, boundaries, competence, and response route are available in the conditions people will actually face.
risk-management
Management of Change: 5 Gaps That Let Temporary Decisions Become Permanent Risk
A change can be approved, documented, and still leave the operation exposed. This diagnostic explains five management-of-change gaps that allow temporary decisions to become permanent risk, with practical tests for EHS leaders, supervisors, and project owners.
psychosocial-risks
Cognitive Fatigue Explained: When Mental Load Becomes a Psychosocial Risk
Cognitive fatigue is more than feeling tired at work. It is a decline in attention, judgment, and working memory that can turn workload, interruptions, and poor recovery into a psychosocial risk with direct safety consequences.
mental-health-at-work
Work Anxiety: How Managers Can Respond in 8 Steps
When a worker says anxiety is affecting work, a manager should protect dignity, check immediate safety, and address the work conditions sustaining the strain.
incident-investigation
Deepwater Horizon: How a Temporary Barrier Became a Permanent Blind Spot
The Deepwater Horizon disaster was not caused by one isolated mistake. It developed when a temporary well-control decision remained in place after its risk meaning had changed, while warnings failed to reach the people with authority to stop the job. This case study explains how investigation teams can identify barrier drift, distinguish technical evidence from governance failure, and turn a closed report into a stronger control system.
occupational-safety
New Hazard Controls: Design, Verification or PPE, Which Move Should Lead?
When a new hazard appears, leaders often jump straight to PPE or a checklist. This comparison shows when prevention through design, critical-control verification or PPE should lead the decision, and why the three moves are not substitutes.
safety-leadership
Field Presence in Safety Leadership: 4 Tests That Separate Visibility From Control
A leader can be highly visible and still leave risk untouched. This critical diagnostic explains how to test whether field presence changes the work, strengthens control ownership, and gives bad news a reliable route to action.
safety-culture
How Alanna Ball Thinks About Belonging in Safety Culture
Episode 13 with Alanna Ball makes a practical case for belonging in safety culture. Visibility, trusted community, care, and neurodiversity affect whether people can contribute information before risk becomes harm.
risk-management
Residual Risk Explained: 4 Questions Before a Manager Accepts the Exposure
Residual risk is the exposure that remains after safeguards are applied, not a polite label for an incomplete assessment. This explainer gives managers four questions for deciding whether the remaining exposure is understood, owned, time-bound, and verified in the work.
