Food Safety Culture

Food Safety Culture

Having a strong food safety culture is an important aspect in ensuring that the food a company produces is of the highest quality and safe for consumers to eat. Creating a food safety culture across your company can be an intimidating task, but the resources provided below should help get you started.

The Innovation Center is currently helping dairy companies run “Food Safety Culture” employee assessments and working together to develop shared approaches and tools to improve culture. As of late 2021, 53 U.S. facilities have completed these assessments with the IC and Cultivate and are working on their programs. To learn more please contact tim.stubbs@dairy.org.

Webinar: Introduction to Food Safety Culture

• In October 2019 the Innovation Center hosted a one-hour webinar on Food Safety Culture by Lone Jespersen of Cultivate.
• Recorded Webinar
• Presentation Slides

For an introduction to food safety culture:

• Company Culture and the Path to Improved Food Safety” - Food Safety Magazine Special Feature
• “A Culture of Food Safety”- GFSI Publication

Another easy way to learn more about food safety culture is listening to these podcasts from Food Safety Magazine:

• Episode #3 with Lone Jespersen: Culture Comes First
• Episode #32 with Frank Yiannas: Leading Food safety at the World's Largest Retailer