by kelvintop-set | May 11, 2018 | News
At Kelvin TOP-SET we are frequently faced with people who are intimidated by the word ‘investigation’ itself, feeling that it is a difficult process at which only the police are expert, and that it implies that there must be a ‘culprit’ to blame in the end. It is...
by kelvintop-set | Apr 19, 2018 | News
Kelvin TOP-SET teaches the investigative process from beginning to end, including the Incident Statement, Planning, Storyboarding, Root Cause Analysis, report writing and developing SMART actions. If you carry out the TOP-SET process to the letter on your incident...
by kelvintop-set | Apr 5, 2018 | News
Kelvin TOP-SET includes Root Cause Analysis (RCA) as a key step in its comprehensive Incident Investigation process. The RCA comes at the end of the investigation when the report is being written and recommendations formulated. We review many investigation reports, as...
by kelvintop-set | Jan 30, 2018 | News
Do you put much thought into who should be on your incident investigation team? Is there ever much choice anyway? Does it really matter? Well, in a word, yes. The success of an investigation depends on the effectiveness of the team. You need the right people for the...
by kelvintop-set | Feb 8, 2017 | News
Never use ‘Human Error’ as a cause. In 2011, Trevor Kletz wrote in his article How Not to Investigate an Accident, ‘Don’t quote human error as a cause’. He was right of course, but his statement has been misunderstood. George Bernard Shaw...
by kelvintop-set | Dec 12, 2016 | News
The Human Element in the Kelvin TOP-SET 3-Days Senior Investigator Course The concept of ‘human factors’ in incidents and their investigation is covered in the Kelvin TOP-SET 3-Days Senior Investigator Course, and is dealt with from two totally different perspectives:...
