Read the transcript of a video about people working on the Olympic Park.
Cyrill: My name is Cyrill Doughin. I work for Marshall Construction as a ground worker. I’d done construction before, so I’d done a year’s training, a year after it was time for the Olympics.
I start work at 7.30, and the first thing I do is make sure all my PPE is correct, everything is on, my gloves, my boots, shades, hat. Then I contact my mate, the other van, to go around the site and then carry out our duties.
Shelly: My role within Digger School is admin and core support. I work in the office environment but then I do get the chance to actually come out here and handle the machines that I have been trained to use.
We offer a foundation course, which means that on any piece of machinery you have to obtain an NVQ in order to get your blue CPCS card. When you come through Digger School you are on a red card. You have to obtain 300 working hours to obtain your blue card, which entitles you to an NVQ.
On an average day I would obviously meet the delegates that come through on a weekly basis. We get their PPE ready. They go into the classroom, they do modules one and two, which is their health and safety. Then they’ll come out and they will start doing their training.
Cyrill: I do a lot of different things in different areas. This week you can do traffic management, tomorrow you can do banking, next day you can do ground work. The following week you can do chippy work. I enjoy it.
Shelly: I feel like sometimes that you’ve got more to prove because it is a male-dominated environment, but it’s good for the girls. The toughest part of the job really I suppose is obviously coming out here and using the plant on a daily basis. But then you say it’s tough: it’s not tough because once you learn how to drive it, it just becomes like second nature. It feels absolutely fantastic because you just feel like you’re taking part in history.
Cyrill: I was here from the start, actually from the start, so I want to be here till the end. I’ve got some kids and a wife, and I could always sit down and know that I’ve been a part of the history of the Olympics.
