Ah, so you're thinking a switch that you depress, and stays depressed until you screw it back in? I guess that could work. I still don't have enough faith in humanity that someone might ignore the instructions and start poking around the electrical socket with a metal paperclip though...
Yep, this is people we're talking about! They'd be balancing 2 chairs on each other whilst randomly stabbing a paper clip in the direction of the bulb's screw, with the power on to be sure it worked! Product designers have to design for the stupidest of us.
I don't think it would need to be that complicated. Just a hole to put a paperclip into that completes a circuit and, I don't know, discharges a capacitor or uses one to clear something.
Assuming you would have to unscrew the bulb to get to the reset, which seems likely, yes it would be perfectly safe.