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You may hear the words accident and incident to refer to events in the news. These words are easy to confuse
Actions which are happend funny or argumented between two people refers as incident.
Accident will occur by anything done by mistaken or error or unintentionally.
An Incident is usually a jerk or jolt in the system resulting in no damage physically to any human being. it may be an eye opener and it could lead to change in processes and systems to avoid recurrence. Whereas an accident is an incident that has resulted in a significant injury to worker, property or environment and could have resulted in health hazards leading to illnesses.
Incidents could be Near Miss, Slight damage to the property or detecting the sign of an impending danger.
Accident is an unwanted event which results in some kind of loss,Incident is an unwanted event which had the potential to cuase harm but not.
Accident happens already but incident can be define as leading nearmiss or accident
Accident is when a human error is involved, however, an incident is any situation which has happened such as a natural disaster.
Accidents are severe unplanned dangerous acts and incidents are minor
