Workplace safety, safety culture, leadership and risk management — international perspective.
Por Andreza Araujo Global Safety Culture Specialist
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Global Safety Culture Specialist
Andreza Araujo is an international reference in EHS, safety culture and safe behavior, with 25+ years leading cultural transformation programs in multinational companies and impacting employees in more than 30 countries. Recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice, she contributes to the public conversation on leadership, safety culture and prevention for a global professional audience. Civil engineer and occupational safety engineer from Unicamp, with a master's degree in Environmental Diplomacy from the University of Geneva. Author of 16 books on safety culture, leadership and SIF prevention, and host of the Headline Podcast.
The Bradley Curve helps leaders read safety culture maturity, but only when they test field decisions, reporting behavior, and operational discipline instead of slogans.
Crew Resource Management improves safety only when supervisors redesign authority, briefing, challenge, cross-checking, and handover routines in the field.
Permit-to-work handover protects high-risk work only when the next shift receives live risk context, control status, and stop-work authority.
Management of Change prevents serious risk only when technical review, field verification, training, and startup authorization work as one system.
A post-incident action plan should convert investigation findings into control changes, owners, dates, verification, and leadership decisions.
Bad news in safety tests leadership because the first response decides whether weak signals become evidence or disappear into silence.
Hazard communication works only when SDS files, GHS labels, training, storage and supervisor verification change chemical decisions in the field.
OSHA 300 logs record work-related injuries and illnesses, but they miss weak controls, reporting pressure, and SIF signals leaders need earlier.
Prevention through Design turns risk management upstream by asking leaders to remove or engineer out exposure before the organization depends on behavior, permits, and PPE.
Safety posters support culture only when they connect to workflow decisions, supervisor routines, field dialogue, and measurable follow-up.