Safety information search results
Filter your results
Building or structure type
- Bridges (66)
- Buildings
(514)
- Agricultural buildings (9)
- Car parks (18)
- Commercial (49)
- Consequence Class 3 buildings (3)
- Education, science & art buildings (38)
- Health care (16)
- Higher-risk buildings (7)
- Industrial buildings (23)
- Laboratory buildings (1)
- LPS buildings (4)
- Nuclear & energy buildings (2)
- Public, religious & civic buildings (14)
- Recreational buildings (9)
- Residential (151)
- Stadiums (6)
- Storage buildings (11)
- Tall buildings (24)
- Theatres & other entertainment buildings (11)
- Transport buildings (6)
- Buried pipes & culverts (7)
- Floating structures (1)
- Freestanding walls (5)
- Marine structures (3)
- Masts & towers (19)
- Offshore structures (2)
- Railways (18)
- Reservoirs & dams (2)
- Retaining structures (41)
- Roads (14)
- Sewers (5)
- Temporary structures (44)
- Tunnels (4)
Building height
Materials
Project or lifecycle stage
Design
- BIM (6)
- Computational design (14)
- Design: quality management (72)
- Design calculations (81)
- Design conceptualisation (30)
- Design detailing (113)
- Design drawings (37)
- Design loads (117)
- Design software (34)
- Dynamics (12)
- Fire safety design (22)
- Resilience (24)
- Robustness (62)
- Structural design (147)
- Sustainability (9)
Codes, standards & regulations
Fire incident response
Project type
- Alteration & conversion project (43)
- Assessment project [sub-heading only] (21)
- Conservation & restoration project (3)
- Construction project [sub-heading only] (263)
- Demolition project (16)
- Excavation (17)
- Extension project (21)
- Fire safety assessment (2)
- Groundworks project (3)
- Maintenance project (5)
- New build (119)
- Refurbishment (21)
- Remediation project (23)
- Repair project (10)
- Strengthening project (11)
- Structural assessment (30)
- Underpinning project (4)
Construction period
Elements & systems
- Arch (8)
- Balconies (17)
- Balustrades (25)
- Basements (13)
- Beams (86)
- Bracing (23)
- Cables (4)
- Canopies (8)
- Ceilings (26)
- Cladding (41)
- Columns (50)
- Fasteners & connections (177)
- Fences (1)
- Fire exit doors (2)
- Fire protection (17)
- Foundations (44)
- Insulation (10)
- Light gauge steel framing (11)
- Lintels (4)
- Padstones (5)
- Parapets (12)
- PV panels (4)
- Roofs (81)
- Sandwich panels (3)
- Shear walls (5)
- Signs (5)
- Slabs (60)
- Tendons (2)
- Trusses (11)
- Wall head restraints (3)
- Walls (116)
- Wall ties (14)
- Wind posts (1)
Plant & equipment
Weather & natural hazards
Utilities
Safety reporting
Organisations
- CROSS-AUS [sub-heading only] (13)
- CROSS-UK [sub-heading only]
(55)
- Building Control Northern Ireland (3)
- Building Safety Regulator (BSR) (1)
- Environment Agency (2)
- Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) (3)
- Health and Safety Executive (HSE) (19)
- Local Authority Building Control (LABC) (24)
- Local Authority Building Standards Scotland (LABSS) (3)
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) (1)
- CROSS-US [sub-heading only] (1)
Business practice
Content type
- CROSS-AUS Newsletter 1 (2)
- CROSS-AUS Newsletter 2 (6)
- CROSS-AUS Newsletter 3 (6)
- CROSS-AUS Newsletter 4 (6)
- CROSS-AUS Newsletter 5 (4)
- CROSS-AUS Newsletter 8 (2)
- CROSS-AUS [sub-heading only] (19)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 1 (16)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 2 (10)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 3 (4)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 4 (9)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 5 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 6 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 7 (5)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 8 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 9 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 10 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 11 (5)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 12 (8)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 13 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 14 (5)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 15 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 16 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 17 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 18 (5)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 19 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 20 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 21 (5)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 22 (5)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 23 (8)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 24 (4)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 25 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 26 (5)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 27 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 28 (5)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 29 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 30 (8)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 31 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 32 (8)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 33 (9)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 34 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 35 (8)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 36 (8)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 37 (8)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 38 (8)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 39 (8)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 40 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 41 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 42 (10)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 43 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 44 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 45 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 46 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 47 (8)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 48 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 49 (8)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 50 (8)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 51 (9)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 52 (8)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 53 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 54 (9)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 55 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 56 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 57 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 58 (9)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 59 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 60 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 61 (4)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 62 (10)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 64 (9)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 65 (10)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 67 (10)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 68 (10)
- CROSS-UK [sub-heading only] (391)
- CROSS-US Newsletter 1 (5)
- CROSS-US Newsletter 2 (6)
- CROSS-US Newsletter 3 (5)
- CROSS-US [sub-heading only] (10)
- CROSS Feature Article (1)
- CROSS Newsletter (235)
- CROSS Review (21)
- CROSS Safety Alert (30)
- CROSS Safety Report (768)
- CROSS Theme Page (3)
- CROSS Topic Paper (24)
- News [sub-heading only] (75)
- Safety information from CROSS [sub-heading only] (4)
- Safety information [sub-heading only] (5)
- Third party article (1)
- Third party content (11)
- Third party content (5)
- Third party report (1)
CROSS regions
Trench sheet naming confusion
A reporter involved with temporary works design has been made aware that there are two suppliers providing a trench sheet under the same name.
30 June 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 814
Region: CROSS-UK
Checking structural calculations
A reporter worked for a small consultancy as a graduate structural engineer where their calculations were never checked.
3 August 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 816
Region: CROSS-UK
Concern over concrete test methods used on site
A reporter is concerned about the test method a contractor uses to justify the strength of concrete placed on site.
13 December 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 840
Region: CROSS-UK
Concerns over welded wire mesh balustrade infill panels
A reporter has expressed their concern about the structural adequacy of some welded wire mesh balustrade infill panels that they have come across.
2 February 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 841
Region: CROSS-UK
Private Building Control data protection use
A reporter needed details of a domestic extension from a local authority who said that an application had been made for the original work by a private company, but under the Data Protection Act they could not release any drawings or documentation.
6 April 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 825
Region: CROSS-UK
Has the role of building control changed?
A reporter raises a query about the role of Building Control.
5 September 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 810
Region: CROSS-UK
Final report of the Advisory Committee on Falsework (Bragg report)
This Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) report, better known as the Bragg report, published in 1975, set requirements for erection and stability of these temporary structures.
1 January 1975
Third party content
Publisher: Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
Specifying resin by colour causes confusion
A mistake occurred on-site when resin for fixings was selected by colour of packaging rather than by colour of resin. The actual resin used did not reach sufficient strength and the installed fixing failed under a pull test.
10 March 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1068
Region: CROSS-UK
Stone cladding panel concerns
A reporter is concerned in respect of the risk of failure of stone cladding panels.
9 August 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1069
Region: CROSS-UK
Erroneous design snow loading assumption for indoor sports facility causes structural distress
An indoor sports facility in a mid-western city suffered snow-related damage one winter. The shell reportedly exhibited visible deflections in several of the arches, causing the owners to close the facility.
2 May 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1012
Region: CROSS-US