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
1076 articles 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.
incident-investigation
How Tim Page-Bottorff Thinks About Root-Cause Questions After an Incident
Episode 10 with Tim Page-Bottorff reframes root-cause analysis around the conditions, controls, and decisions that allowed an incident to develop, giving leaders a fairer and more useful investigation sequence.
occupational-safety
Energy Isolation: 5 Decisions That Turn LOTO Into a Verified Barrier
Lockout/tagout becomes dependable when leaders treat isolation as a chain of decisions, not a tag placed on equipment. This diagnostic shows where maintenance teams can verify energy control before work begins.
safety-culture
Safety Climate Explained: 4 Observable Signals Beyond Compliance
Safety climate is the current perception of whether safety priorities influence real decisions. This glossary explains four observable signals involving bad news, resources, challenge, and temporary control weakness.
incident-investigation
Deepwater Horizon: When a Drilling Decision Outran the Barrier System
The Deepwater Horizon disaster was not created by one careless individual. The official investigations describe a chain in which technical uncertainty, schedule pressure, incomplete evidence, and weak challenge combined around a high-consequence decision. The leadership lesson is direct. A barrier is not reliable because it appears on a permit or in a meeting record. It is reliable when the people who own the decision can show that it was understood, available, tested, and strong enough for the conditions in front of them.
occupational-safety
Training vs Competency vs Field Proof: Which One Counts?
Training shows that information was delivered, competency tests applied capability, and field verification checks whether a safety control survives real work.
safety-culture
Safety Culture After a Near Miss: 4 Leadership Responses That Decide What Teams Report Next
A near miss tests safety culture through the response that follows it. This critical diagnostic explains four leadership responses that shape what teams report next, from the first acknowledgment to corrective-action ownership and field verification.
safety-leadership
How Dr. Thomas Krause Thinks About Making Safety Leadership Visible
In Episode 11 of the Headline Podcast, Dr. Thomas Krause argued that the quality of leadership predicts whether a safety initiative succeeds. This companion turns that argument into a practical review of visible decisions, worker trust, incident analysis, and control verification.
incident-investigation
Incident Investigation Evidence Gaps: 4 Decisions That Distort the First 24 Hours
The first 24 hours can determine whether an incident investigation explains the work or merely records the event. This guide identifies four evidence gaps that distort early findings and gives EHS leaders decision rules for preserving evidence, testing accounts, and assigning stronger corrective action.
safety-leadership
How to Run a Shift Handover That Preserves Risk Ownership
A shift handover is a control-transfer process, not a status update. This practical guide shows supervisors how to preserve risk ownership, unresolved actions, changing conditions, and escalation rights between teams.
