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
600 articles
risk-management
Risk Owner in 90 Days: Critical-Control Plan
A 90-day role plan for new risk owners who must turn registers, ALARP decisions and field verification into visible critical-control discipline.
7 min
incident-investigation
Hindsight Bias Explained: Foresight vs Blame
Hindsight bias explained for EHS managers who need incident investigations that reconstruct real decisions instead of blaming workers.
5 min
occupational-safety
Safety Committee Work Plan: 9 Checks for 90 Days
A 90-day safety committee work plan turns meetings into field decisions, with clear owners, evidence, deadlines, verification and escalation rules.
6 min
psychosocial-risks
Job Demands: 5 Assumptions That Keep Psychosocial Risk Invisible
A mythbusting guide for HR, EHS and operations leaders who need to see job demands as a work-design risk, not a personal resilience issue.
7 min
risk-management
What-If Analysis: Run a 60-Minute Field Review
A practical 10-step What-If Analysis guide for EHS managers and supervisors who need fast, field-ready risk decisions before non-routine work starts.
8 min
risk-management
Risk Register Cleanup: How to Rebuild It in 30 Days
A 30-day risk register cleanup guide for EHS managers who need fewer stale rows, clearer owners, stronger evidence, and better critical-control decisions.
7 min
psychosocial-risks
Workload Risk Plan: How to Build It in 30 Days
A 30-day workload risk plan for HR and EHS teams that need to turn stress signals into controls, ownership and verified work-design changes.
8 min
safety-culture
Multilingual Safety Playbook: 19-Country Case
A 19-country safety culture case study on turning translated rules into shared field decisions across factories and distribution centers.
6 min
safety-indicators-and-metrics
Lagging Indicators Explained: 4 Limits for EHS
Lagging indicators explain what already happened, but they cannot predict fatal exposure unless EHS reads them beside control verification.
5 min
psychological-safety
Safety Concern Triage: Respond in 48 Hours
Safety concern triage gives every report a human owner, risk route, field check, and visible response before silence becomes culture.
8 min