Define the decision
What decision, escalation or intervention is actually being considered?
Threshold structures the question, record, uncertainty, alternatives and consequences so authorised people can make the decision with a clearer evidence picture.
What action or escalation is actually being considered?
State the concern without presuming the answer.
Documents, chronology, accounts and previous actions.
Fact, account, interpretation, assumption and unknown.
What else could reasonably explain the available information?
What decision, escalation or intervention is actually being considered?
What concern triggered the review without presuming the answer?
Relevant documents, chronology, accounts and previous actions.
What is evidenced, reported, interpreted, inferred, disputed or unknown?
What else could reasonably explain the available information?
What material question has not yet been established?
What are the risks of acting, delaying, escalating or doing nothing?
Appropriate authorised people consider the structured evidence picture.
The authorised organisation or person makes the decision and owns the action.
Where appropriate, agreed actions and outcomes are followed through.
Technology does the sorting and indexing. A person at ORVIA checks every pack before it comes back to you. The decision stays with you and the professionals responsible for it.
Threshold does not decide guilt, abuse, dismissal, capacity, risk status, regulatory enforcement, clinical intervention, police action or other decisions that belong to authorised humans and statutory bodies.
TRUST SHOULD BE INSPECTABLE
Company registration, external recognition and ORVIA’s own programme are shown separately, so you can see what each one means. Every item links to its source.