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
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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 Rodney Rocha Thinks About Uncertainty Before Safety Can Be Proven
Episode 7 with Rodney Rocha reframes the burden of proof in safety decisions. When information is incomplete, leaders should preserve the original warning, make assumptions visible, assign an owner, and provide protection before asking workers to prove that a task is unsafe.
mental-health-at-work
EHS Team Mental Health: 5 Strain Signals Safety Leaders Should Not Normalize
EHS teams are expected to protect the organization while absorbing its unresolved risk, urgency, and conflict. This diagnostic shows five strain signals that should change workload, escalation, and leadership design before exhaustion becomes a safety-system failure.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
Safety Indicator Explained: 4 Tests That Separate Activity From Control
Many safety dashboards count meetings, inspections, and training hours without showing whether critical exposure is becoming more controlled. This article defines a practical safety indicator and presents four tests that help leaders distinguish activity from evidence, connect metrics to decisions, and avoid celebrating a green dashboard that says little about serious risk.
risk-management
How to Review a Job Safety Analysis Before Work Starts in 30 Minutes
A practical 30-minute method for supervisors to test a job safety analysis against real field conditions, critical controls, ownership, and stop-work decisions.
safety-leadership
Imperial Sugar: When Dust Became a Board-Level Risk
The Imperial Sugar disaster shows why combustible dust must be governed as a board-level process risk, not treated as a housekeeping issue today.
psychosocial-risks
Workload Cap vs Roster Redesign vs Recovery Protection: Which Control Fits Psychosocial Risk?
Workload caps, roster redesign, and recovery protection address different psychosocial exposures. This comparison shows which control fits demand, work pattern, and recovery risk.
psychological-safety
Psychological Safety: 5 Frictions That Keep Expert Warnings Out of Decisions
Psychological safety is not proven by a survey score. It is proven when expert warnings reach the person who can change the work, and the decision visibly responds.
safety-culture
How Clive Lloyd Thinks About Compliance When Trust Is the Real Safety Control
Episode 12 with Clive Lloyd reframes safety compliance as only one part of the control system. The deeper test is whether workers can raise difficult information, see a fair response, and trust leaders when production pressure changes the plan.
safety-indicators-and-metrics
Safety Leading Indicators Explained: 4 Tests for Control Quality
A leading indicator is useful only when it connects a defined exposure to field evidence, a named owner, and a response. This glossary explains four tests that help safety leaders distinguish control quality from activity counting.
occupational-safety
How to Build a Risk-Based Inspection Route for a Small Plant in 21 Days
A risk-based inspection route helps a small plant spend field time where exposure and control uncertainty are highest. This 21-day guide shows EHS leaders and supervisors how to build a route that produces decisions rather than another calendar of routine walks.
