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Welcome to CROSS

Introduction

CROSS aims to improve structural safety and reduce failures by using confidential reports to highlight lessons that have been learnt, to generate feedback and to influence change.

CROSS uses reports on the concerns of Engineers and others for the benefit of the public and practitioners in the construction industry. If you have had an experience that could be passed on please use this facility to make a report to CROSS. No concern is too small to be reported and nothing is too large.

Key features of the scheme are to:

• be non-judgmental
• promote a positive attitude to learning from experience
• be seen by all sides of industry as impartial
• analyse and evaluate reports
• provide advice and guidance in Newsletters
• give feedback to industry and regulators
• provide complete confidentiality for reporters

New website

This new site contains many additional features and is designed to simplify registration and reporting as well as having a database of reports. If you were registered for the old site and receive the quarterly Newsletters there is no need to register again, but if you have not registered and want to receive notifications when new Newsletters are published then add your email address to the box on the right of this page. There is a feedback section for general comments on Structural Safety, the CROSS scheme, or this site. Feedback is welcomed.

The database contains all the CROSS reports that have been published and SCOSS reports since 1999. There is a Quick Search facility and any word entered here will be used to find all the reports which contain the word. There is a more refined search engine which looks for categories entered into a series of tick boxes.

Structural Safety

'Structural safety' refers to the strength, stability and integrity of a structure to withstand the conditions that are likely to be encountered during its lifetime. Structural safety is achieved through the proper procurement, design, construction and maintenance of the structure and the application of best practice.