Objective To understand the current knowledge related to food safety and risk factors in catering workers,to provide basis for taking effective intervention measures for food safety.Methods Conducting a survey on the knowledge,attitudes and behaviors to food safety with questionnaires in 720 randomly selected catering workers.Results The awareness of food safety knowledge was 60.8%,no difference was observed in subjects from different units or working on different posts,but a significant difference was observed in subjects with different degree of education,different profession,different work experiences and had different training times.The importance of food safety was fully understood by 98.8% of catering workers.And 89.7% of them have generally developed good behaviors and habits for food safety.Conclusion In order to ensure food safety for the masses,it is necessary to enhance training catering workers to improve their food safety knowledge,to develop their good food safety habits and to regulate their professional behavior.