"safety incident" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe an event where safety protocols were not followed or something went wrong that could have been dangerous. For example, "The company experienced a safety incident when workers were operating heavy machinery without wearing protective gear."
"We've never had a single safety incident," said Jeff Taylor, the company's chief operating officer.
A key issue is whether we use safety incident reports for learning or for performance management.
It is the first major safety incident involving the 555-seater double-decker plane which made its first commercial flight in October 2007.
The troubled construction company Jarvis today announced a programme of repair work at the Jewish Free School in north London, following a safety incident that closed the school.
They must spell out to managers and the whole workforce that they regard trying to silence a whistleblower as a serious patient safety incident.
It becomes yet another league table which organisations have to climb, but it is far from certain that will translate into creating a culture which turns a safety incident into a driver of staff learning and real, meaningful change.
In papers filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Strandflex's parent company, Handy & Harman, acknowledged that it was under investigation, but said there had never been a safety incident involving Strandflex cable and pledged to fight all the claims.
It said: This slight shortfall versus the most recent guidance was caused by the enforced shutdown of Tullow's non-operated production in the [parts of the] UK in early December 2012 following a safety incident.
"This one's going to be in near darkness," mutters the man on the door, and Beach House emerge in so much gloom that if one of them mislaid a contact lens, there would be a health and safety incident.
