Safety information search results
Filter your results
Building or structure type
Project or lifecycle stage
Design
Operation or occupation
Codes, standards & regulations
Fire incident response
Construction period
Method of construction
Plant & equipment
Weather & natural hazards
Utilities
Safety reporting
Project delivery methods
Business practice
Risk management
Public incidents
Theme pages
Locations
Content type
- CROSS-AUS Newsletter 1 (1)
- CROSS-AUS [sub-heading only] (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 1 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 2 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 3 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 7 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 22 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 34 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 38 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 39 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 41 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 44 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 45 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 46 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 52 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 55 (4)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 56 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 57 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 58 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 60 (1)
- CROSS-UK [sub-heading only] (39)
- CROSS Newsletter (16)
- CROSS Safety Report (40)
- (-) News [sub-heading only] (40)
CROSS regions
Industry not reacting to failures
As legislation is reviewed, this report questions the appetite for change in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire.
1 July 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 798
Region: CROSS-UK
Contractor uses incorrect fixing bolts for masonry support angles
A correspondent noticed that proprietary masonry support angles specified to support the outer leaf of masonry had been incorrectly connected to the steel beam using carriage bolts.
1 July 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 794
Region: CROSS-UK
Failure of waling beam connected to raking prop
A reporter discusses how they witnessed the failure of a temporary support for an excavation on site due to similar design issues discussed in CROSS report 298 (Props to large excavations).
1 July 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 813
Region: CROSS-UK
Repeating the same design mistakes
A correspondent who investigates engineering failures has shared common errors which engineers keep repeating.
1 October 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 858
Region: CROSS-UK
Propping of post-tensioned slabs during construction
A reporter raises their concerns after an infill slab strip was not poured in time which resulted in overloading of the slab below during a concrete pour.
1 April 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 873
Region: CROSS-UK
Defects in tapered thread reinforcement bars for coupling
A reporter highlights how B500 reinforcing bars were observed to have visually different tapered threads cut into the bars after delivered to site.
1 July 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 844
Region: CROSS-UK
Weld de-specification without design approval
A reporter's firm was engaged as fabricators for a main contractor and asked by them to de-specify full and partial penetration butt welds and replace them with fillet welds without approval from the main design engineer.
14 October 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 845
Region: CROSS-UK
Safe use of lifting magnets
A reporter highlights how a two-tonne lift using magnetic lifting equipment was abandoned, averting a potential high consequence event.
1 October 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 849
Region: CROSS-UK
Suspended ceiling partial collapse
A reporter was asked to investigate a suspended ceiling, formed from a lay-in grid, that had partially collapsed in a school classroom.
1 January 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 854
Region: CROSS-UK
Post-tensioned slab failure during tendon stressing operations
A reporter disseminates the lessons learned after the end of a slab burst while stressing the tendons in a post-tensioned concrete slab.
1 April 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 882
Region: CROSS-UK