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 incident-investigation
How Michael Emery Thinks About Curiosity Before Incident Investigation
Michael Emery's Episode 14 argument changes the opening move of an incident investigation. Instead of beginning with the rule that was missed or the person who acted, investigators should use curiosity to understand what the work demanded, what the team could see, and which conditions made the deviation reasonable at the time.
safety-culture
Safety Culture Credibility: 5 Tests That Reveal Whether Leaders Mean What They Measure
A safety culture becomes credible when its stated priorities survive difficult decisions. This F1 diagnostic gives executives and senior EHS leaders five tests that connect leadership language with resource choices, bad-news response, control verification, accountability, and field evidence.
psychosocial-risks
Organizational Justice at Work Explained: 4 Signals That Shape Psychosocial Risk
Organizational justice affects whether people trust workplace decisions and raise concerns early. This Headline Podcast glossary explains four practical signals leaders can review.
occupational-safety
How to Run a Safety-Critical Shift Handover Before Maintenance Starts
A maintenance handover is not a status update. It is a control transfer in which the outgoing and incoming teams confirm the work boundary, hazardous energy, control owners, changed conditions, and unresolved decisions before exposure moves to the next shift.
incident-investigation
San Bruno Pipeline Rupture: How Records Failure Became a Safety-Culture Warning
The 2010 San Bruno pipeline rupture killed eight people and exposed more than a technical defect. The NTSB investigation connected the event to inaccurate records, weak integrity management, inadequate emergency response, and a safety culture that allowed warning signals to remain disconnected from executive decisions. This F5 case study turns the public record into a practical review for pipeline, utility, and high-hazard leaders.
incident-investigation
Witness Interview vs Document Review vs Field Walkdown: Which Evidence Should Lead an Incident Investigation?
Witness interviews, document review, and field walkdowns answer different investigation questions. This comparison shows when each source should lead, where it can mislead, and how to combine all three before approving corrective action.
mental-health-at-work
Cognitive Fatigue at Work: 5 Distortions That Make Unsafe Readiness Look Like Commitment
Cognitive fatigue can make a committed worker look available while reducing attention, memory, judgment, and willingness to challenge a weak plan. This F1 diagnostic helps EHS and operations leaders distinguish personal effort from safe readiness and change the work before fatigue becomes a control failure.
safe-behavior
How Tim Page-Bottorff Thinks About Humor Before Safety Messages Travel
Tim Page-Bottorff's Episode 10 argument is not that safety leaders should become entertainers. It is that a message people cannot remember, repeat, or connect to their own work rarely changes a decision, and humor can help create that connection when leaders use it with discipline.
occupational-safety
Exposure Boundary Explained: 3 Questions That Keep Chemical Work Within Control Limits
A chemical exposure result is only as useful as the conditions behind it. This F7 explainer gives supervisors and safety leaders three questions that define when sampling is representative, which control must remain available, and what change requires reassessment.
risk-management
How to Run a Bow-Tie Workshop for a New High-Risk Task in 8 Steps
A bow-tie workshop turns a high-risk task into a decision-ready control map. Follow eight steps to define threats, verify barriers, assign owners, and authorize work.
