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 psychosocial-risks
How Cam Stevens Thinks About Voice Technology as a Psychosocial Risk Signal
Cam Stevens's Episode 15 argument is not that safety technology is good or bad. It is that leaders must define the problem first, then test whether a technology changes the decision without creating a new psychosocial exposure through surveillance, overload, or false certainty.
mental-health-at-work
Mental Health Escalation at Work: 5 Gaps That Leave Managers Without a Safe Next Step
Workplace mental-health support fails when managers can notice a concern but cannot identify the next safe decision. This diagnostic examines five core gaps, plus the ownership, authority, and measurement failures that keep support separate from work design.
safe-behavior
Decision Fatigue Explained: 4 Pressures That Distort Safety Choices
Decision fatigue is not simply tiredness. It is the gradual loss of judgment quality that can make a supervisor accept weaker controls, overlook changing exposure, or postpone a necessary stop-work decision.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
How to Build a Safety Metric Data Dictionary for Monthly Reviews in 14 Days
A practical 14-day guide for EHS managers and operations leaders who need safety metrics to support decisions rather than decorate a monthly dashboard. The method defines each measure, its owner, its source, and the decision it must trigger.
incident-investigation
Alexander L. Kielland: When a Structural Warning Became a Governance Failure
The 1980 Alexander L. Kielland disaster was not only a structural failure. The official inquiry and later Norwegian Auditor General review show how design assumptions, inspection boundaries, operating role changes, and public oversight can combine until a known vulnerability becomes an irreversible loss.
safe-behavior
Training Records vs Competence Demonstration vs Task Authorization: Which Gate Proves Readiness?
Training records, competence demonstrations, and task authorization prove different things. This comparison helps safety leaders choose the evidence gate that matches the consequence, task variability, and current work conditions.
occupational-safety
Line-Breaking Safety: 5 Decisions That Prevent Residual Pressure From Becoming an Invisible Hazard
Line breaking is controlled by decisions made before the first flange opens. This diagnostic explains how operations and maintenance leaders can define the line, confirm isolation, manage residual pressure, verify the work boundary, and authorize restart without turning a permit into false reassurance.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
5 Lessons from Episode 11 with Dr. Thomas Krause on Trust Metrics
Episode 11 with Dr. Thomas Krause reframes trust metrics as evidence about leadership quality and response reliability. Five lessons show why averages can conceal risk, how culture appears in interactions, and what leaders should verify after people speak up.
safety-culture
Compliance Fatigue Explained: 3 Patterns That Make Repetition Hide Risk
Compliance fatigue appears when repeated safety activity loses its connection to risk, decisions, and changed work. This explainer defines three patterns and shows what supervisors can verify before routine becomes false confidence.
risk-management
How to Run a 20-Minute Control-Health Review When a Critical Barrier Is Unavailable
A short field-ready method for EHS managers, supervisors, and control owners who must decide whether work can continue when a safety-critical barrier is unavailable. The review defines the exposure, tests a temporary control, assigns decision rights, and sets a recovery condition before the exception becomes routine.
