Workplace Safety Definitions

Incident

Incident:-a single distinct event -An event that has caused or has the potential to cause damage to an organization's business systems, facilities, or personnel.-An incident is an occurrence or event. "Incident is an undesired event that may cause personal harm or other damage".

1 A definite and separate occurrence; an event. See Synonyms at occurrence

2 A usually minor event or condition that is subordinate to another.

3 Something contingent on or related to something else.

4 An occurrence or event that interrupts normal procedure or precipitates a crisis: an international incident.

Accident

An accident is something going wrong unexpectedly. Physical examples include an unavoidable collision (including a person or object falling by chance). The term is also loosely applied to mean any undesirable outcome, even if it could have been avoided, such as getting injured by touching something sharp, hot, electrically live, ingesting poisons, or other injuries caused by lack of ordinary precautions. -A sudden, unexpected, unusual, specific, violent, external event which results in a Loss.-any occurrence which results in personal injury, disease or death, or property damage.

Technically, accidents do not include incidents where someone is at fault (e.g. negligent); for example, if someone fails to take reasonable precautions in the circumstances. If the results of such negligence were foreseeable, they were not accidental, and the negligent person can be held responsible for any consequences of such negligence. In an "accident", nobody can really be held liable because the event was unforeseeable or very unlikely (for example, if one's computer is knocked over by a friend unintentionally, it was accident; however, one could blame the friend for being careless).

1 An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm: car accidents on icy roads.

2 An unforeseen incident: A series of happy accidents led to his promotion.

3 An instance of involuntary urination or defecation in one's clothing.

4 Lack of intention; chance: ran into an old friend by accident.