Risk taking behavior is influenced by several variables including personal risk, disposition, locus of control, mood, and feedback at work development. These various factors impact on the possibility of behavior change as a result of the risk information received, including trust in the source from which the information was received, making risk communication considered essential for a positive food safety culture (Griffith, Livesey, Clayton, 2010). The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the risk taking behaviors of food handlers of a military institution, and the impacts of the food safety culture on these behaviors. In order to do so, the food handlers were observed at their workplace and inappropriate situations resulting from risk taking behaviors were recorded through photos. Since the use of graphic messages can increase the cognitive processes of messages important to food safety (Yiannas, 2016) during training for food handlers, we have worked with such images in order for the handlers to identify the risk and the hazard involved, as well as proposals for changing those situations. The situations recorded are the result of risk taking behaviors, influenced by the institution's organizational culture and food safety culture. Despite presenting a positive commitment, they present several negative elements of the food safety culture, such as low risk perception, lack of defined management systems and inadequate work environment. Given the reality of the place, the diagnosis of the food safety culture and the techniques for behavior improvement proposed by Yiannas (2016), during the training with the food handlers, ways of changing the behavior were proposed by the food handlers themselves. As food handlers proposed changes to the realities presented, they were led to think of changes that they could make themselves considering one of the techniques proposed by Yiannas (2016), of not being a spectator of food safety, demonstrating that before food safety food being a shared responsibility, it is a personal responsibility. These behavioral changes aim to make food safety a social norm of the place and create a positive food safety culture based on sanitary risk.