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A sudden, unwanted, and unplanned event or event sequence that could reasonably have been expected to result in harm to one or more assets, but actually did not.

This definition is identical to the definition of accident, with the important distinction that incidents do not cause any significant harm. As for accident, the term incident is mainly used about events that have occurred in the past. From an initiating event, the event sequence can develop until it ends either with an accident or with an incident. Other terms that are used more or less with the same meaning as incident are near accident, mishap, and near miss.

Observe that some authors use the term incident to include both incidents and accidents as they are defined in this book.