Help CROSS to create a safer built environment

Share safety concerns in confidence with Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures.

A core remit of the ICE is to help engineers build, operate and maintain structures that are safe, reliable and fit for purpose.

One way it does this is by working with the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) to run Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures (CROSS).

What is CROSS?

It’s a confidential system enabling professionals working in the built environment to report structural and fire safety issues.

It will publish this information anonymously so that knowledge can be shared and action can be taken to improve safety throughout the sector.

Reports can be submitted by anyone working on any structure at any stage of its life. No safety issue is too small to disclose.

CROSS operates in the UK, the US and Australasia.

The ICE and the IStructE co-founded CROSS-UK in 1976. The institutions formed Structural-Safety Ltd (SSL) as the legal entity enabling them to jointly manage the system.

They own equal stakes in SSL, which provides benefits to both professionals and the public and makes decisions without any outside pressures affecting its fairness.

Since 2020, CROSS-UK has also been supported by the Institution of Fire Engineers.

Make your sector safer:

Report to CROSS

Why is such a system important?

In light of the ICE’s published findings after the Grenfell Tower disaster, it’s vital for the sector to learn from safety failures and so prevent their recurrence.

In 2020, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government fulfilled recommendation 1.4c of Dame Judith Hackitt’s Building a Safer Future report by funding the extension of CROSS-UK’s remit to cover fire safety.

This aligned with the ICE’s goal of both supporting its members with CPD learning on safety risk management and providing actionable guidance to the wider sector.

What can you do on the CROSS-UK website?

Access the CROSS-UK website to:

report structural and fire safety issues;
find information about structural and fire safety;
keep updated with the latest news and events concerning structural and fire safety;
review case studies; and
sign up to receive the CROSS-UK newsletter.