"springboard for action" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when you want to refer to an idea or situation that encourages a person to take action in some way. For example, "The new health policy could be a springboard for action to improve public health."
They were also the springboard for action taken last year by the Fawcett Society challenging the coalition government's first budget.
I was disappointed that we did not go further, but I think that it can be a springboard for action – and it's not just about what text might be agreed in a negotiating document.
In some ways this is a shopping list of measures that could potentially be used as a springboard for action by governments.
"All victims of human rights abuses should be able to look to the Human Rights Council as a forum and a springboard for action," Ban declared recently.
We can beat ourselves up with nothing to be gained, when we're be better advised to use remorse as a springboard for action, and to see the universal nature in our regrets.
While she says doesn't believe the conditions are right for a nationwide general strike, Holmes says she views May Day as springboard for actions to come.
(Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, New York: Bantam, 1988) What we call things matters – reports of medical errors "channel attention, shape interpretations and serve as springboards for action"[ 1].
As we better understand how family physicians use the word "error" then the reports they make will be even more useful as springboards for action.
The background to all this is the latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEAA) on the Iranian programme which failed to provide an unambiguous springboard for urgent action.
This would be both a potent symbol of Taliban impotence, thereby undermining whatever remaining tribal support the Taliban might have left in this critical part of the country, and a springboard for offensive action.
It should, rather, serve as the springboard for comprehensive action.
