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
435 articles risk-management
Prevention Through Design: 7 Decisions Leaders Need
Prevention through design turns safety into a capital decision by forcing leaders to remove hazards before procurement, construction and daily work.
psychosocial-risks
Toxic Leadership: 7 Psychosocial Risk Signals
Toxic leadership becomes a psychosocial risk when silence, turnover, workload, conflict, and hidden human cost cluster around one reporting line.
safety-leadership
Safety Walks: 7 Pitfalls Leaders Should Catch
Safety walks fail when leaders inspect surfaces instead of decisions, weak signals, and barrier quality across the operation. Use these seven tests.
psychological-safety
Retaliation Risk After Speak-Up: 7 Tests Leaders Need
Retaliation risk is not limited to formal punishment. It appears in tone, delay, stalled careers, and quiet exclusion after someone raises a safety concern.
safety-culture
Safety Climate Survey vs Risk Perception Assessment: 7 Differences Leaders Miss
A safety climate survey measures how people experience leadership, trust, and consistency. A risk perception assessment tests whether people can actually recognize exposure before work starts. Leaders need both, but not for the same decision.
incident-investigation
First-Hour Incident Evidence: 7 Decisions Leaders Must Make
The first hour after a serious incident determines whether leaders preserve evidence and trust or manufacture a shallow investigation.
mental-health-at-work
Mental Health Awareness Month at Work: 7 Tests That Separate Action From Theater
Mental Health Awareness Month matters only when leaders connect the campaign to workload, manager behavior, protected disclosure, return to work, and psychosocial risk controls.
safe-behavior
Risk Perception Drift: 6 Myths Supervisors Still Believe
Risk perception drift grows when familiar exposure, clean outcomes, and production pressure teach crews that weak controls are normal enough to continue.
mental-health-at-work
Occupational Anxiety: 7 Signals Leaders Miss
Occupational anxiety is a leading safety signal when it changes voice, attention, control quality, and manager decisions before absence data appears.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
Safety Underreporting: 7 Signals Executives Miss
A clean safety dashboard can hide weak reporting, fear, and filtered risk signals when leaders reward low numbers more than operational truth.
