2015 WILLISTON BASIN CANPOTEX & THE BIG BUSINESS PETROLEUM CONFERENCE SASKATCHEWAN POTASH OF HOSTING EVENTS SPRING 2015 VOLUME 4 ISSUE 1 Saskatchewan 45 YEARS & 5 THE DIVISIONS STRONG MINING NORTHERN STRANDS IS GROWING WITH SASKATCHEWAN EDITION CANADA’S PREMIER INLAND PORT We are the Global Transportation Hub — western Canada’s newest, fastest-growing inland port authority. We are both independent and self-governing. Doing business with us is fast and easy. Located in the heart of western Canada, we’re home to a million sq. ft. Loblaw Distribution Centre and CP Rail’s massive new intermodal facility. Right now we have over 300 acres of prime, service-ready land for sale. Come grow with us. Already $485 million in private sector investment You’ll be in good company. — and we’re just getting started. THEGTH.COM | 306.798.4762 | REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN GTHA-0216A_BandI_Mag_Spring_Ad_8.25x10.75_031115.indd 1 2015-03-17 9:20 AM Travelling between Regina & Saskatoon? 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Although we endeavour to provide accurate and timely information, there can be no guarantee that such information is accurate as of the date it is received or that it will continue to be accurate in the future. No one should act upon such information without appropriate professional advice after a thorough examination of the particular situation. 1 BUSINESSREGINA 4 BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY SASKATCHEWAN Workers_Comp.Cameco.qxp_Layout 1 2015-03-20 10:41 AM Page 1 www.worksafesask.ca www.safesask.com I BELIEVE IN MISSION: ZERO Cameco President and CEO Tim Gitzel with an employee at Cigar Lake. We’ve worked very hard over the past few years at Cameco to work safer. That’s what a strong safety culture does. We really want to live by our motto that no job is so important that we can’t take the time to do it safely. Tim Gitzel President and CEO “ Cameco Corporation Join the Mission: Zero movement by signing the Saskatchewan Health & Safety Leadership Charter. Call 306.352.3810 or email [email protected] for more information. ” CONTENTS SHOWCASING SASKATCHEWAN33 8 Safety Taking Safety Home 10 Management/HR Strategies for Leading Gen Y Employees 16 Saskatchewan Industry Canpotex, Taking Saskatchewan Potash to the World; Gwynne Dyer on Cheap Oil; Keystone XL Pipeline Update NORTHERN 28 Cover Story 45 Years & 5 Divisions Strong, Northern STRANDS Strands is Growing with Saskatchewan 45 YEARS & 33 Regional Economics The Big Business of Bringing Events to the Province 5 DIVISIONS 40 Marketing 2015: Year of the Mobile Site STRONG 42 Science & Technology Biomedicine, Worth its Weight in Nanogold; The Rise & Triumph of the Smartphone 48 Environment SRC’s Pipe Flow Technology Centre™ 28 Expansion Project 60 Philanthropy 62 Sask. Life 50 Legal Prairie Proud Gives Back Saskatchewan: Weather Delays: Using Force Majeure Live, Work and Play Clauses in Contracts 52 Finance Data Mining to Accelerate Mid-Market Business Growth 6 BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY SASKATCHEWAN Upcoming Conventions, EVENTTrade Shows, Workshops and Events CALENDAR APRIL - JUNE 2015 ▶ APRIL 2830 2015 Williston Basin Petroleum Conference Evraz Place, Regina ▶ MAY 78 Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan – Celebrating 20 Years Business Conference & AGM MAY 78 TCU Place, Saskatoon ▶ MAY 14 SABEX Awards Gala 2015 Prairieland Park Trade & Convention Centre, Saskatoon ▶ MAY 26 Business Luncheon – Let’s Talk Exports 2015 STEP Saskatchewan Trade & Export Partnership Delta Hotel, Regina ▶ MAY 2627 JUNE 34 Saskatchewan Forum 2015 Delta Bessborough, Saskatoon ▶ JUNE 34 Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show Weyburn Exhibition Grounds, Weyburn ▶ JUNE 1719 Canada’s Farm Progress Show Evraz Place, Regina JUNE 1719 BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY SASKATCHEWAN 7 [ SAFETY ] Taking SAFETY HOME BY SASKATCHEWAN WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BOARD (WCB) PHOTOS COURTESY CAMECO It’s the call every supervisor dreads: “I’ve fallen hil Germain, vice president of Prevention and Employer Services at the Saskatchewan off a ladder at home. I’m not sure how long I’ll Workers’ Compensation Board says, “An be off work.” For the person hurt, in addition to injury affects you everywhere. An injury Pat work affects you at home and vice versa. Achieving pain and potential disability, the weeks off work Mission: Zero is about zero injuries whether you can mean financial loss and inconvenience to are at home, on the highway, at work, at the cabin or on the boat.” family and friends. For the employer, it means scrambling to fill shifts, lost productivity and He explains that building a safety culture at work and investing in safety training is an investment into a whole possibly hiring a temporary replacement. community. “At work there is someone watching to 8 BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY SASKATCHEWAN make sure you wear your PPE because mine sites recognize employees who meet Over half the people surveyed reported of a policy. At home you have to do it criteria as safety leaders at an annual sharing their first aid training, fire safety on your own. It has to be your decision. award ceremony for safe workers. and safe equipment operation training Watching for hazards and dealing with with other people. They also encouraged them effectively has to become a habit.” In the survey, the Cameco employees other people to wear PPE and using identified the safety huddles as one proper equipment. A recent survey by Cameco at two of the most valuable ways to maintain the northern Saskatchewan mine sites shows safety culture. Two-thirds of respondents said they are workers are taking safety habits home with using their safety skills at home for the them, using their training to volunteer Training Makes a Difference benefit of their communities, in roles in their communities and talking about such as volunteer first responders. safety with family and friends. The majority of those surveyed said Germain says, “Safety at work has a ripple that training changed their attitude and Alice Wong, senior vice-president and effect into our home and communities. behaviour. After receiving workplace chief corporate officer at Cameco, says That’s why two of the principles of training, they pay more attention to this fulfills Cameco’s hope for their staff. the Health and Safety Leadership potential hazards and keep safety Being immersed in the company’s safety Charter directly address the importance culture begins on a person’s first day at foremost in their daily activities.