Strong food safety cultures are often associated with maturity. With most food companies, a strong food safety culture is not developed overnight. Following three steps can help develop food safety culture maturity at any organizational level, even for small- and medium-sized businesses.

It is well known that every food organization has a food safety culture. Whether it is poor or world-class, some kind of food safety culture is present at every organization making food. The authors believe that a world-class food safety culture is not only an outcome of having leaders with strong technical food safety skills and strong people skills, it is also the result of having technical leaders with the ability to successfully integrate both technical knowledge and people skills into the organization through processes and systems.