Best Olympic worker named

Workers and contractors across the Olympic Park have been recognised for their health, safety and environment achievements.

The Olympic Delivery awards - judged by an independent adjudication panel coordinated by the British Safety Council - recognised the performance and contribution of five teams and four individuals working on London 2012 projects.

John Armitt, Olympic Delivery Authority Chairman said: "Health and safety has to be at the heart of a project of this size, scale and complexity. A huge amount of progress has been achieved in the last year and thanks to the people that these awards recognise, we have done that with safety being the number one priority.

"But we are not complacent. The Olympic Park is one of the busiest construction sites in the UK and will continue to grow as the workforce increases to its peak in 2010. It is essential that we continue our efforts to make the Olympic Park the healthiest, safest and greenest site in the country."

 
The Awards and their winners were:

Worker of the Year Award was presented to Huw Preece working on the primary foul drainage and pumping station
 

Supervisor of the Year Award was presented to Sean Melody from the structures, bridges and highways construction team
 

The Environmental individual performance Award was presented to Andy Bassett from the Aquatics Centre construction team
 

Manager of the Year Award was presented to Thomas Faulkner from the structures, bridges and highways team
 

The Commitment to Exemplar Performance was awarded to Team Stadium for their work on the construction of the Olympic Stadium

The Project Performance Award was presented to the ‘Park Health’ occupational healthcare team based on site
 

The Environmental Project Performance Award was presented to the construction team for the Weymouth and Portland sailing facilities
 

The Team Training Award was presented to the Enabling Works team for their work on the north of the Olympic Park