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
1075 articles risk-management
Risk Criteria: 6 Decisions That Keep Board Thresholds From Hiding Exposure
Risk criteria only govern exposure when they change approval, escalation, funding, and stop-work decisions. This Headline Podcast analysis gives senior leaders six decisions for turning risk thresholds into operating controls.
safety-leadership
How Alanna Ball Thinks About Community Before Safety Leadership Scales
Alanna Ball's Episode 13 argument is that safety leadership is not built only through individual confidence. It grows when people create visible communities, share access, and turn their own progress into an invitation for someone who is still outside the conversation.
psychosocial-risks
Psychosocial Risk in Healthcare Explained: 4 Work-Design Questions
Psychosocial risk in healthcare is shaped by work design, not only by individual resilience. This explainer gives leaders four questions for reviewing demand, control, conflict, and recovery.
psychosocial-risks
Recovery Capacity Explained: 4 Conditions for Safer Decisions
Recovery capacity is a workplace condition, not a personal resilience score. This explainer defines four conditions that help leaders protect attention, judgment, and safer decisions under psychosocial pressure.
incident-investigation
Moura No. 2 Mine Disaster: When a Known Heating Became a Leadership Decision
The 1994 Moura No. 2 explosion killed 11 miners after a heating risk was not effectively recognized and treated. The Queensland inquiry shows why serious incident prevention depends on decision ownership, escalation quality, and evidence that reaches the people who can change the work.
safety-leadership
Safety Governance: Risk vs Audit vs Safety Council
Compare risk committees, audit committees, and safety councils to decide where serious safety concerns belong and how leaders should route evidence, authority, and escalation.
risk-management
Risk Acceptance: 5 Distortions That Make Residual Exposure Look Governed
Risk acceptance is not a signature that makes exposure acceptable. It is a governance decision that should show what remains exposed, who owns the decision, which controls are operating, and what evidence would change the decision. This F1 diagnostic examines five distortions that mislead boards, executives, and senior EHS leaders when residual risk is presented as controlled.
safety-leadership
How Alanna Ball Thinks About Making the Next Safety Leader Visible
Alanna Ball's Episode 13 conversation offers a practical leadership test: can people who are still finding their voice see a credible route into safety leadership? Visibility is not a branding exercise. It shapes who applies, who speaks, who receives sponsorship, and whose experience becomes part of the risk conversation.
psychological-safety
Safety Committee Quorum Explained: 4 Conditions for Credible Worker Voice
A safety committee can meet its attendance rule and still lack credible worker voice. This glossary explains four quorum conditions involving representation, authority, evidence, and follow-through.
psychosocial-risks
How to Run a Night-Shift Fatigue Check Before Overtime Assignment
A practical eight-step method for supervisors to check fatigue exposure before assigning overtime on a night shift, protect critical controls, and escalate work-design problems without diagnosing employees.
