Abstract: Incident reporting is an integral part of patient safety. Therefore, studying enablers and barriers to incident reporting is important to improve quality of patient care. Nursing Officers, who are front line health care providers, play an important role in incident reporting in hospital setup. The objective of this study was to describe enablers and barriers for incident reporting by Nursing Officers in Medical, Surgical, Paediatric, Gynaecology and Obstetrics wards in the Teaching Hospital, Kandy.