The 2022 SHCA Media Kit, which outlines print and digital advertising opportunities in SHCA’s publications, is now available.
Plan your 2022 advertising and contact a sales representative today to confirm your placements.
Click here to download the 2022 Media Kit.
Safe and healthy workplaces matter to industry.
Industry is most qualified to identify current hazards in their workplaces that could lead to injuries and to determine best practice to prevent injuries. Industries at higher risk of injuries, such as heavy construction, demonstrate safety is a priority by maintaining safety associations to support workplaces.
Practical and relevant safety training as well as advice and support is developed and delivered by these safety associations. These services are based on direct knowledge that industry provides these associations. Saskatchewan is fortunate to have seven safety associations, including the Heavy Construction Safety Association of Saskatchewan.
As a Saskatchewan Heavy Construction Association member, you should know about recent changes by Saskatchewan’s Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB). These changes undermine the work and credibility of the province’s industry safety associations.
Agreements about the delivery and accountability of funding as well as WCB’s requirements of these associations are being reinterpreted and revised. This has the potential to radically change the nature and purpose of safety associations in Saskatchewan as well as the role of the WCB.
I am working closely with these safety associations so that we can preserve them as well as industry’s role in developing relevant and effective safety training. Through our research, we have mapped out the moves being made by WCB that undermine the safety associations. These moves are primarily around funding, but also include presenting safety data and injury numbers without including necessary context. (That context would reveal WCB’s indirect knowledge of industry. Its decisions and actions based on indirect industry knowledge impact safety outcomes.)
As safety leaders, our group’s advocacy efforts with government are not just defending the safety associations. We are on the offense, proposing our own vision for the organization and administration of safety in Saskatchewan, including enforcement.
Industry organized, sponsors and funds these safety associations so the resources that workplaces need to maintain and improve safety on worksites exists. These safety associations provide valued guidance and support to workplaces, and I ask you to keep this issue in mind as you prepare for 2022’s work season.
As Canada plans massive investments in infrastructure, key industry associations are calling for a focus on trade-enabling projects.
In a letter to Catherine McKenna, the federal Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, the Western Canada Roadbuilders & Heavy Construction Association (WCR&HCA) praised Ottawa for its focus on building.
“The importance of this initiative, Building the Canada We Want in 2050, cannot be overstated,” it said.
Creating an inventory and assessing the condition of infrastructure assets is the “necessary first step” to determining where to direct infrastructure dollars.
The most recent quarterly forecast by the Canadian Rental Association (CRA) suggests that the event and equipment industry in Canada will grow nearly 10 per cent this year, reaching almost $5.4 billion.
Ponoka, Alberta
2. How did you get your start in the heavy construction industry?
I was able to get work coming out of high school with the company my father worked for.
3. What is your career history?
I spent 10 years in pre-cast concrete, and 46 years in road construction.
4. What’s the best piece of business or career advice you have or have been given?
Never be afraid of a challenge.
5. What’s your favourite thing about Saskatchewan and working in the industry?
Wide spaces under open skies
6. How long have you been a member of the SHCA?
25 years
7. On what occasion do you lie?
There is NO occasion where you need to lie
8. What do you dislike most about your appearance?
The wrinkles!
9. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
“60-40”
10. Who is the greatest love of your life?
My wife – my companion for the last 46 years
11. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Carrying the Olympic torch in the 2010 Olympic games
Tech companies and OEMs have been investing heavily in 3D machine control technologies in the roadbuilding sector to help paving and milling operations build longer-lasting roads. But how exactly have some of these technologies been improving operations?
On Aug. 19, SHCA hosted its first in-person event since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The SHCA Southern Golf Tournament was a great success. Thank you to all participants and an especially large thank you to the event sponsors. It was wonderful to see faces once again!
Together, we are better. Now that we can host and attend events, we have a few coming up that offer our members a great opportunity to move forward their interests. Mark your calendars with these events in November.
The first is the MLA reception that the Saskatchewan Heavy Construction Association is hosting on Nov. 1 from 5 to 7 p.m. This event is your opportunity to meet with provincial MLAs from both sides of the legislature to talk to them, face to face, about your business as well as the industry.
Whatever insights, issues or topics you think these MLAs need to recognize is up for discussion when we get together in Room 218 at the Legislative Building in Regina. Encourage other members to attend to speak to amplify the message you feel needs to get across.
We ask that everyone planning to attend pre-register as the SHCA needs to provide the legislative staff with the list of names of those attending. To pre-register, please contact traceyk@saskheavy.ca or slipp@saskheavy.ca. The earlier you register, the better!
The second event is the SHCA Fall Convention, which is scheduled Nov. 25–26 in Saskatoon. For two days, we will gather at the Delta Bessborough Hotel and Convention Center to listen to speakers and participate in conversations about our industry.
On Friday evening (Nov. 26) is the Chairman’s Banquet. New this year is that the capacity for this event is set at a maximum of 300 delegates. That makes registering and booking your room early extra important!
Registration links are now open and available for the SHCA Room Block. More details about the convention will be coming out as we move towards November.
Events such as these are important to our members because they help develop and strengthen the voice of the association. Gathering to share about our experiences, ideas and suggestions helps our members recognize and realize improvements and opportunities. It is how our members can find and form the connections that make their businesses and this industry even better.
I look forward to seeing each and every one of you who takes part in these events and learning more about your current interests and ideas so I can best represent you and our industry.
Industry consultation with SHCA members helped Southeast College develop a program that will benefit all heavy construction stakeholders in the province
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