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-leadership
How Tim Page-Bottorff Thinks About Self-Discipline in Safety Leadership
An interpretive companion to Episode 10 with Tim Page-Bottorff on self-discipline, burnout, accountability, storytelling, and the leadership habits that shape incident prevention.
incident-investigation
Incident Investigation: 5 Decision Gates That Keep Serious Reviews From Becoming Blame Exercises
A critical F1 analysis of five decision gates that keep serious incident investigations evidence-led, system-aware, and focused on risk change rather than convenient blame.
safety-culture
Safety Assurance Explained: 4 Conditions That Make Safety Claims Credible
Safety assurance is more than an audit score or a completed register. This explainer shows the four conditions that make a safety claim credible from leadership intent to field evidence and a recorded decision.
psychosocial-risks
How to Audit Psychosocial Risk in an Industrial Plant
Audit psychosocial risk in an industrial plant with an eight-step method that connects workload, work design, employee evidence, controls, owners, and follow-up.
safety-culture
How 250+ Safety Transformations Turned Culture Diagnosis Into Weekly Leadership Decisions
An aggregate case study from Andreza Araujo's professional record showing how safety culture diagnosis becomes useful when leaders connect findings to weekly decisions, named owners, and field evidence.
safety-leadership
Executive Risk Review vs Control-Owner Review vs Shift Huddle: Which Forum Should Escalate a Safety Decision?
Safety decisions slow down when every concern is sent to the same meeting. This comparison helps safety leaders distinguish the shift huddle, control-owner review, and executive risk review by decision speed, authority, evidence, and follow-through.
safe-behavior
Behavioral Observation: 4 Tests That Show Whether Coaching Changed Exposure
Behavioral observation earns its place in a safety system only when it changes the conditions, decisions, or controls that shape exposure. This critical diagnostic gives supervisors and EHS leaders four tests for separating useful coaching from observation theater.
incident-investigation
How Rodney Rocha Thinks About Evidence Before Incident Conclusions
Rodney Rocha’s Episode 7 experience inside the Columbia debris assessment team offers a practical discipline for incident investigators: test evidence and uncertainty before turning a plausible story into an organizational conclusion.
safety-leadership
Safety Committee Charter Explained: 5 Responsibilities That Keep Oversight Operational
A safety committee charter becomes useful when it defines authority, protects field information, assigns decision owners, sets escalation thresholds, and verifies that oversight changed the work.
safety-culture
How to Build a Safety Action Ownership Review in 30 Days
A 30-day operating guide for turning open safety actions into owned decisions, visible deadlines and verified controls instead of another aging spreadsheet.
