Food Safety Culture: Fresh Tips and Ideas

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This supplement follows Issue 161’s post about the origins of food safety culture as an explicit requirement in food safety management system standards.

If you’re new to food safety culture requirements and systems, I recommend you start by viewing our training session from 2023 which explains the basic principles of food safety culture and its role within food safety management systems.

If you’ve been working with formal food safety culture systems for a while now and are looking for fresh perspectives, this post is for you.

Table of Contents

What does ‘good’ look like in food safety culture?

Measuring and monitoring food safety culture

Tips for food safety culture surveys

Template for survey foreword

Sample surveys and questionnaires

What to do with survey answers

Tips for changing food safety behaviours

Ideas for rewarding good food safety behaviours

Mechanism for food safety incident reporting

Tips for getting senior management buy-in

What to do if your company already has a ‘good’ culture

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What does good look like?

In a good food safety culture, everyone is doing the right thing: top management, middle management, workers, service providers, visitors, everyone!  Everyone can speak up if they see something that is not right.  And everyone is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.