The company Kelvin TOP-SET® is located in Scotland and has over 20 years of experience in incident investigation. The knowledge that came from this experience is incorporated in a methodology, named TOP-SET®. TOP-SET® is an incident investigation methodology that follows all known best practices in this field.
The method revolves around six elements: Technology, Organization, People, Similar Events, Environment and Time. The planning of the investigation, but also the facts that are gathered during the investigation are categorized by these items.
The TOP-SET® methodology starts with an initial incident statement to set the scope of the incident. After that the method basically follows three main steps: Planning, Investigate and Analyze.