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- CROSS-AUS Newsletter 2 (1)
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CROSS regions
Rotting plywood decking on grandstand
During visual structural inspections of temporary demountable grandstands, a walkway board failed when it was walked on.
31 May 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1092
Region: CROSS-UK
Tower crane base designs
A reporter’s firm has been involved in the design and checking of numerous tower crane bases and have come across many examples where the supplier of the tower crane has supplied incorrect loadings. These incorrect loadings could have led to crane failures had the errors not been spotted.
7 June 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1093
Region: CROSS-UK
Scaffold collapse
There has been a further report on a scaffolding collapse.
1 April 2007
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 79
Region: CROSS-UK
Site hoardings blow down
Investigations into timber hoarding failures by the reporter’s firm indicated that the majority of site hoardings are erected with no design whatsoever.
1 October 2007
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 83
Region: CROSS-UK
Scaffolds and traffic protection
A reporter is concerned about the lack of consideration shown both in British Standards and industry guidance regarding the risk of impact of vehicles with scaffolds and thereby putting at risk those working on a scaffold.
1 November 2006
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 53
Region: CROSS-UK
Unauthorised scaffolding
A reporter raises concerns over a temporary scaffold support that they came across that was over a public highway.
1 July 2008
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 111
Region: CROSS-UK
Scaffold collapse and slipping clips
A photograph has been sent in by a reporter which show a scaffold that collapsed onto a parking area.
1 July 2010
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 152
Region: CROSS-UK
Public art structures - further discussions
A reporter has written to CROSS concerning the issue of Public Art (report 136), having had a lot of interaction with a council when I was Head of Building Control.
1 October 2009
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 157
Region: CROSS-UK
Licensing of temporary structures
Temporary structures, such as stages, marquees, lighting towers, video screens and the like are erected at a huge number of events in the UK each year. A reporter who inspects many such structures raises concerns that the systems in place for ensuring their stability are not working.
1 January 2012
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 276
Region: CROSS-UK
Hoarding incident
A reporter says that under high, but not severe, wind loads a portion of timber hoarding failed and struck site personnel.
1 July 2013
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 278
Region: CROSS-UK
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