Would s/severity/impact/g also be counterproductive of safety culture? Genuinely trying to learn here, gotta be responsible/accountable and all.

Maybe impact relative to carelessness/aloof-ity?

I agree that an engineer/person will not behavior differently based on outcomes, but if they know in advance something can have a wide, destructive blast radius if some procedure is not followed, I feel there's a bit more culpability on the part of the engineer. Regardless I don't think I feel I have a sufficient grasp on this concept I'm trying to define so definitely agreed I shouldn't have included 'severity' in the function definition nor any alternative candidate