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.
HAZOP, FMEA and Bow-Tie solve different risk questions. The wrong choice creates analysis volume without improving critical-control decisions.
A practical guide for supervisors who need daily safety meetings to expose weak signals, not repeat slogans that workers already ignore.
Confined space rescue only protects workers when the permit, atmosphere testing, equipment and rescue team are verified before entry begins.
Safety training fails when leaders use it to repair weak systems, unclear controls or production pressure that keeps defeating correct behavior.
Severity Rate helps leaders see injury consequence, but it becomes dangerous when executives use it as a proxy for serious risk control.
Stop-work authority fails when leaders announce permission but punish delay, embarrassment or bad news in daily operations.
Psychosocial risk controls only work when HR, EHS and operations change the job conditions that create overload, conflict and chronic pressure.
Contractor safety culture fails when host companies audit paperwork but ignore influence, supervision, voice, and real integration on site today.
A field guide for spotting normalized shortcuts before they become SIF precursors, with supervisor actions, indicators, and culture traps.
A practical guide for EHS managers and supervisors to turn hot work permits into real fire and explosion barriers before ignition starts.
