Personal hygiene food handlers at the hospital nutrition department is very important to control the quality of food and to improve patient condition. The presence of good hygiene behavior can reduce the risk of contamination in food. Personal hygiene behavior can be influenced by knowledge and attitude. The purpose of this study to determine the correlation between knowledge and attitudes towards personal hygiene behavior food handlers in nutrition department, UNS Hospital Surakarta. The type of research was cross sectional research design. The total population was used. Twenty two food handlers at Nutrition Department, UNS Hospital Surakarta to be the samples. Knowledge and attitude data were obtained by questionnaire. The behavior data was collected by checklist form. Chi Square test was used for analyzing. The results showed that the dominant gender of the study is female at 59,1%. The highest age group is adult at 68,2%, the highest level of education was SMA /SMK 81,8%, the length working time was more than 2 years at 54,5% and the income range is 1.000.000-2.000.000. The level of good food handlers knowledge is 81,8%, good food handlers attitude is 72,7% and good food handlers behavior is 59,1%. There were no correlation between knowledge and personal hygiene behavior of food handlers (p= 1,000) and between attitudes and personal hygiene behavior of food handlers (p = 0,178).