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
1022 articles
psychosocial-risks
4 Myths About Psychosocial Risk Assessments That Managers Still Believe
Psychosocial risk assessments fail when surveys replace work-design analysis. These four myths show managers how to connect findings to workload, role clarity, confidentiality, and control verification.
5 min
psychological-safety
Psychological Safety Metrics: 5 Distortions That Make Silence Look Like Trust
A critical diagnostic for executives who need to distinguish genuine psychological safety from quiet teams, favorable survey scores, and reporting patterns that hide unresolved operational risk.
8 min
occupational-safety
Prevention Through Design Explained: 4 Design Decisions That Reduce Worker Exposure
Prevention Through Design moves occupational safety upstream, helping engineering, operations, maintenance, procurement, and EHS reduce exposure before procedures and PPE become the main defense.
5 min
psychosocial-risks
How to Audit Psychosocial Factors in an Industrial Plant in 30 Days
A practical 30-day method for EHS, HR, and plant leaders to audit psychosocial factors by connecting work design, workload, worker voice, leadership response, and owned operational changes.
6 min
risk-management
How a Risk Register Became a Decision System Across 30 Countries
A case-based account of how risk registers become useful when leaders connect each exposure to an operating decision, a control owner, and field evidence, drawing on Andreza Araujo's work across more than 250 cultural transformation projects and 30 countries.
6 min
mental-health-at-work
Absence Rate vs Presenteeism vs Workload Exposure: 3 Decision Paths for HR and EHS Leaders
Absence rate, presenteeism, and workload exposure reveal different parts of workplace mental-health risk. This comparison helps HR and EHS leaders choose the first decision, owner, and verification step.
7 min
safety-culture
Safety Culture: 6 Blind Spots That Turn Employee Participation Into Decorative Consultation
Employee participation strengthens safety culture only when concerns can change decisions, controls, priorities, or resources. This diagnostic examines six blind spots that make consultation look active while the operating system keeps rewarding silence and speed.
8 min
safety-indicators-and-metrics
New Safety Data Steward in 50 Days: How to Make Leading Indicators Decision-Ready
A new safety data steward should not begin by building another dashboard. This 50-day role profile shows how to establish indicator ownership, test data quality, connect signals to controls, and give leaders evidence they can use before serious risk becomes an event.
9 min
mental-health-at-work
Suicide Prevention at Work Explained: 4 Safeguards Managers Can Build
Suicide prevention at work is an organizational safety responsibility as well as a clinical issue. These four safeguards help managers reduce silence, improve access to help, and address harmful work conditions.
6 min
safety-leadership
How to Run a 15-Minute Shift-Start Safety Briefing That Changes Decisions
A short briefing protects work only when it tests changed conditions, critical controls, stop conditions, ownership, and field evidence. This eight-step guide helps supervisors turn a shift-start conversation into a decision routine.
8 min