Staff involvement is introduced as a process for empowering employees to participate in managerial decision making and improvement activities appropriate to their levels in the organisations. This expounds a participatory style of management that is de-centralised. It assumes that employees are happy to work, are self-motivated and creative, besides enjoying working with greater responsibility. It assumes that workers: take responsibility and are motivated to fulfill the goals they are given, seek and accept responsibility and do not need much direction and consider work as a natural part of life and solve work problems imaginatively. Employee involvement in health and safety, although serving an important role in any organisation, is often overlooked. The moral reason for factoring in health and safety is that protecting people is the right thing to do, while the legal requirement is an obligation. All are important towards the business purpose of improving the end product. Workplace accidents, associated injuries and illnesses are significantly underestimated, putting over 500 hundred permanent workers and thousands of contract workers in the horticultural research institutes at risk. Role of staff involvement in health and safety practices in reducing disasters within the horticultural research institutes has not been entirely understood and there is limited existing documented data in this area. Staff involvement in safety and health prevents work-related accidents, minimising losses, eliminating damage to property and injury to people. To examine the extent of staff involvement in health and safety issues in horticulture research institutions. An average employee involvement at 55.6%, indicated by staff involvement in orientation which was at 64.8% for new staff. There were high levels of employee involvement, there was low reporting on health and safety. More effective reporting systems should be created where employees are encouraged to report on health and safety. Staff should be involved in formulation of policy, its implementation, monitoring, evaluation and recommendations for improvement.