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
1021 articles
mental-health-at-work
Leader Mental Health: 5 Blind Spots in Safety Decisions
Leader mental health shapes safety decisions long before burnout is visible. These five blind spots show how workload and recovery affect risk governance.
7 min
occupational-safety
IEC 61511 Explained: 4 Lifecycle Decisions That Keep Process Safety Functions Credible
IEC 61511 organizes functional safety for process-industry safety instrumented systems across a lifecycle. This explainer separates four decisions that determine whether a claimed safety function remains credible after design, startup, testing, and change.
4 min
occupational-safety
How to Prepare a Contractor Interface Review Before Mobilization in 14 Days
A practical 14-day method for making contractor responsibilities, hazards, controls, communication, and escalation clear before work begins on site.
7 min
risk-management
Sago Mine: How a Rescue Assumption Became a Fatality Pathway
The January 2, 2006 Sago Mine explosion killed 12 miners and exposed a risk-management failure that is easy to repeat: treating a rescue arrangement as evidence of readiness. The case shows how leaders can test emergency barriers before a critical event forces the answer.
6 min
psychosocial-risks
ISO 45003 vs HSE Management Standards vs EU-OSHA: 5 Decisions for a Multinational Plant
ISO 45003, the HSE Management Standards, and the EU-OSHA approach solve different psychosocial risk decisions. This comparison helps multinational plant leaders choose a framework that leads to evidence, ownership, and changed work conditions.
8 min
safety-indicators-and-metrics
Safety Data: 4 Distortions That Hide Changing Exposure Risk
Safety data becomes misleading when exposure changes faster than the denominator, leaving leaders to compare unlike periods and fund the wrong controls.
7 min
psychosocial-risks
Psychosocial Risk Owner in 75 Days: First Decisions
A practical 75-day transition plan for psychosocial risk owners to turn work signals into confidential, accountable, and verifiable design changes.
6 min
psychosocial-risks
Impossible Deadlines Explained: 3 Work-Design Signals Leaders Can Act On
Impossible deadlines become psychosocial risks when schedule pressure changes recovery, decision quality, and the ability to challenge unsafe trade-offs. This explainer shows three work-design signals leaders can act on before pressure becomes a health or safety problem.
4 min
incident-investigation
Incident Corrective Actions: Verify Them in 30 Days
A practical 30-day method helps incident owners verify that corrective actions changed exposure, strengthened controls, and survived normal operating pressure.
6 min
psychological-safety
4 Beliefs About Silence at Shift Handover That Supervisors Still Misread
A practical mythbusting guide for supervisors who need to distinguish agreement from silence at shift handover and turn uncertainty into visible risk decisions.
7 min