Safety information search results
Filter your results
Building or structure type
- Bridges (1)
- (-)
Buildings
(120)
- Commercial (6)
- Consequence Class 3 buildings (1)
- Education, science & art buildings (4)
- Health care (1)
- Industrial buildings (1)
- Public, religious & civic buildings (3)
- Recreational buildings (1)
- Residential (38)
- Stadiums (1)
- Storage buildings (3)
- Tall buildings (3)
- Theatres & other entertainment buildings (5)
- Transport buildings (1)
- Car parks (2)
- Flats & apartments (9)
- Hotels & hostels (1)
- Houses (20)
- Retaining structures (1)
- Temporary structures (2)
Materials
Project or lifecycle stage
Design
Operation or occupation
Fire incident response
Project type
- Alteration & conversion project (12)
- Assessment project [sub-heading only] (1)
- Construction project [sub-heading only] (62)
- Demolition project (3)
- Excavation (3)
- Extension project (2)
- New build (34)
- Refurbishment (5)
- Remediation project (2)
- Strengthening project (2)
- Structural assessment (1)
- Underpinning project (3)
Method of construction
Elements & systems
- Balconies (5)
- Balustrades (4)
- Basements (4)
- Beams (18)
- Bracing (5)
- Ceilings (8)
- Cladding (8)
- Columns (11)
- Fasteners & connections (40)
- Fire protection (3)
- Foundations (12)
- Insulation (1)
- Light gauge steel framing (3)
- Lintels (2)
- Padstones (3)
- Parapets (2)
- Roofs (12)
- Shear walls (2)
- Slabs (7)
- Trusses (4)
- Wall head restraints (3)
- Walls (26)
- Wall ties (6)
Plant & equipment
Weather & natural hazards
Utilities
Safety reporting
Organisations
Project delivery methods
Business practice
Public incidents
Theme pages
Content type
- CROSS-AUS Newsletter 3 (1)
- CROSS-AUS [sub-heading only] (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 1 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 2 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 3 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 4 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 5 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 6 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 7 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 8 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 9 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 10 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 11 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 12 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 13 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 14 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 15 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 17 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 18 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 19 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 20 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 21 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 24 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 26 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 29 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 30 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 32 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 33 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 34 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 35 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 36 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 37 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 38 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 39 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 41 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 43 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 44 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 45 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 46 (4)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 47 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 48 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 49 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 50 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 51 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 55 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 58 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 59 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 62 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 68 (1)
- CROSS-UK [sub-heading only] (75)
- CROSS-US Newsletter 2 (4)
- CROSS-US Newsletter 3 (3)
- CROSS-US [sub-heading only] (4)
- CROSS Newsletter (39)
- CROSS Safety Report (120)
- News [sub-heading only] (12)
- Safety information from CROSS [sub-heading only] (1)
- Safety information [sub-heading only] (1)
CROSS regions
Steelwork splices do not match design calculations
Remedial works had to be carried out after it was found that steelwork splices on site did not match calculations which were retrospectively provided by a contractor.
29 March 2021
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 916
Region: CROSS-UK
Unsafe working platform
A reporter came across an access platform supported next to an excavated foundation with unstable sides while carrying out an inspection on site.
10 March 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1019
Region: CROSS-UK
Unsafe excavation practices
A builder undermined the existing footing of a masonry wall without being aware of the risks.
30 July 2021
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1026
Region: CROSS-UK
Fire compartmentation detailing issues
Two reports have been received concerning fire compartmentation detailing issues; one on the incorrect installation of fire batts and the other on the incorrect use of intumescent material.
18 August 2021
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1039
Region: CROSS-UK
Roof collapse at a social club
This is a report about a roof collapse that occurred, in about 1985, because only half as many parallel faced timber roof trusses were installed as there should have been.
30 June 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 942
Region: CROSS-UK
The myth of quality assurance
This report argues that to achieve the objective of good quality construction that satisfies the design intent there is no substitute for the practice of regular site inspections being conducted by the original design engineer. It questions whether there has been too much reliance on the process of quality assurance systems to the detriment of the quality of the end product.
25 November 2021
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 960
Region: CROSS-AUS
Structural steel - reinforced concrete interface
A reporter describes how the substructure of a building was constructed out of position to the extent that the steel frame could not be erected to tolerance and could not be connected to the holding down bolts.
1 March 2006
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 19
Region: CROSS-UK
Building regulations submissions
This report has been written on behalf of a group of senior local government structural engineers who refer to previous CROSS newsletters and in particular the reports relating to the poor quality of building regulation submissions and lack of checking resources.
1 July 2007
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 65
Region: CROSS-UK
Failure of blind bolts
There was a partial collapse of a steel frame building due to the failure of some blind bolts during the construction period. Loads at the time were well below anticipated failure levels.
1 April 2007
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 71
Region: CROSS-UK
Inadequate underpinning
Works were stopped on site after it was discovered the contractor had completely ignored the specified 5-bay sequence and timing of the underpinning works shown on the design drawings.
1 April 2007
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 72
Region: CROSS-UK