One million hours of work have been achieved on the Olympic Park site without a reportable accident, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) announced today.

Seb Coe, Chair of the London Organising Committee, and David Higgins, ODA Chief Executive, marked this significant achievement by visiting site canteens across the Park and thanking some of the 2,000 staff for all their hard work so far on the project.


Seb Coe said: "The progress being made on the Olympic Park site is simply extraordinary - the scale and complexity of this task cannot be underestimated."

David Higgins added: "A huge amount has been achieved over the last year with an extensive demolition and earthworks programme. This has been done with health and safety at the forefront of our plans."

Higgins concluded safety has to come first in a project of this size.

(GK/JM)