Is "screw up the system" formal enough? / screw up vs. f... up

I am (trying to) write documentation for an online project.
I want to write a comment that is similar to:

"# ToDo: This part of the code should be hidden in a module so users can not inadvertently screw up the system"

Is "screw up the system" OK to put there?
I am not a native speaker, and "screw up" sounds to me like "f.. up"… However, I see it being used by newspapers, etc. where "f… up" would definitely have been inappropriate…

I wanted to ask what would be a good alternative as well, but alternate-word-phrase-for-screw-up-f-up-mess-up, though downvoted, seems to cover that part.