Over the last three years, the Olympic Park site in East London has been transformed from a wasteland. World-class sporting venues, an Athletes' Village and all of the infrastructure needed to cope with thousands of spectators and competitors have now been created.
It is one of the largest construction projects in Europe. The 'big build' phase - construction of the main venues and infrastructure on the Park - was completed in summer 2011. It was completed on time, within budget and with an excellent health and safety record.
HSE has been involved right from the start, working closely with the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) to make this one of the safest construction projects ever. The project has demonstrated that high standards of health and safety can be achieved. The lessons learned are relevant to construction companies of all sizes and HSE will be taking those lessons out to the construction industry, to help 'raise the bar' on health and safety performance.
To learn more about some of the practical solutions used to manage health and safety during the 'big build' go to case studies. To access the health and safety research findings from the construction project, visit Research reports.
