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
434 articles occupational-safety
Lockout Tagout During Shutdowns: 7 Failures Leaders Should Catch
Lockout tagout during shutdowns fails when leaders treat energy control as a form instead of a live barrier system. These seven failures show where exposure hides before harm occurs.
risk-management
Contractor Interface Risk: 7 Failures Leaders Should Catch
Contractor interface risk is the unmanaged boundary between client and contractor systems. Leaders reduce it by treating vendor work as operational risk, not as a purchasing file.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
Executive Safety Dashboard: 7 Metrics C-Level Leaders Need
A C-level safety dashboard should expose serious-risk controls, reporting integrity, supervisor capacity, and workload pressure before harm appears.
psychosocial-risks
Impossible Deadlines: 7 Psychosocial Risk Signals
Impossible deadlines become psychosocial risk when schedules make safe work unrecoverable and train managers to normalize overload.
safe-behavior
Behavioral Observation: 7 Signs It Became Theater
Behavioral observation can look productive while missing real exposure. Learn seven signals that separate field dialogue from quota theater.
mental-health-at-work
Middle Manager Burnout: 7 Signals Leaders Miss
Middle manager burnout is a safety leadership risk when overload weakens escalation, speak-up, and daily risk decisions across operations.
psychological-safety
Speak-Up Metrics: 7 Signals Leaders Should Track
A practical leadership guide to measuring speak-up quality, response time, dissent outcomes, participation gaps, and weak signals before incidents occur.
occupational-safety
Work at Height Permits: 7 Failures Leaders Miss
A critical guide to work at height permits, showing how leaders can turn forms into controls before fatal fall exposure begins.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
SIF Leading Indicators: 7 Metrics Leaders Need
SIF leading indicators help executives see fatal-risk exposure before TRIR moves, using barrier health, permit quality, and action effectiveness.
risk-management
Risk Matrix Blind Spots: 5 Distortions Leaders Should Catch
A risk matrix can support safety decisions, but it can also hide fatal exposure when leaders treat color as proof. This Headline Podcast article shows five distortions executives should challenge.
