Safety Culture: From Theory to Practice
ISBN 6500447182
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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
risk-management
Risk Appetite: 6 Blind Spots That Leave Safety Decisions Unfunded
Risk appetite only improves safety when it changes live decisions. These six blind spots show why governance statements fail when authority, evidence, budget, and field verification remain disconnected.
6 min
mental-health-at-work
Return-to-Work Explained: 4 Coordination Tests That Protect Recovery
Return-to-work succeeds when managers coordinate work design, health information, supervision, and follow-up instead of treating absence as an isolated HR event.
4 min
psychological-safety
How to Run a 10-Minute Psychological-Safety Check Before Every Shift
A practical supervisor routine for turning hesitation, dissent, and bad news into visible safety decisions before work begins.
7 min
occupational-safety
How a 180-Day Safety Reset Made Supervisor Decisions Visible at the Point of Work
During Andreza Araujo's PepsiCo South America tenure, the accident ratio fell 50% in six months. The transferable lesson was a management rhythm that made supervisor decisions, production pressure, and field controls visible before the next injury.
7 min
occupational-safety
SDS vs Chemical Inventory vs Exposure Assessment: Which Evidence Should a Plant Trust Before a Chemical Change?
A safety data sheet explains a substance, a chemical inventory shows what the site actually holds, and an exposure assessment tests what people may encounter. This comparison helps EHS leaders choose the evidence that fits the decision before a chemical change reaches the field.
7 min
psychosocial-risks
Psychosocial Risk: 5 Decisions That Turn Workload Data Into Management Action
Workload data does not reduce psychosocial risk by itself. Leaders need five decisions that connect demand, work design, ownership, response time, and verification so a survey or dashboard changes the conditions that create strain.
8 min
occupational-safety
New Machine Safety Owner in 60 Days: The First Decisions That Keep Production From Owning the Risk
A machine safety owner is not the person who maintains a compliance folder. The role is to make sure equipment risks have a decision path, a workable safeguard, and evidence that the control still protects people during real production.
7 min
risk-management
Control of Work Explained: 4 Decision Gates That Prevent Unsafe Restart
Control of work is the management system that keeps high-risk tasks, changes, interruptions, and restarts connected to real field conditions. This explainer defines four decision gates that help leaders separate a planned job from work that is actually ready to proceed.
5 min
occupational-safety
Lift Exclusion Zones: Verify Them in 8 Steps
Lift exclusion zones fail when plans ignore adjacent work, access routes, and changing site conditions. Use eight field checks to make the boundary real before a non-routine lift.
5 min
safety-leadership
Production Pressure: 5 Myths That Keep Safety Leadership Reactive
Production pressure is often treated as an unavoidable conflict between delivery and safety. The more useful question is how leadership decisions turn that pressure into rushed permits, silent exceptions, and unowned risk. These five myths help plant managers and supervisors identify the point where operational urgency starts weakening the barriers that protect people.
7 min