Rebrand Launch Party!

First off, we would like to thank all of our special guests for attending our Rebrand Launch Party and for the fabulous hospitality the Hilton Garden Inn Saskatoon provided to us for our event in their Steps Lounge last week. We had a great turnout, and we truly enjoyed being able to reveal the association’s new brand and logo to all of you. After 22 years, we said goodbye to our old name and are welcoming this new, exciting change! We strive to make safety easier for our members, so it was time to make our name easier to say and remember too! Thanks for welcoming us to this new chapter in our safety story! 

For those of you that may not have been able to attend our event, you can watch our rebrand reveal video below courtesy of Service Hospitality TV!

Thank you to the staff at the Hilton Garden Inn for making our event one to remember! To read more about our Rebrand, click here to find out more: Out with the Old, In With the New!

This year we presented SHHA’s CEO, Mr. Jim Bence, with Service Hospitality’s most prestigious award, the Safety Centered Leadership Award. Jim’s accomplishments in health and safety are almost too numerous to mention. Here are a few you may be aware of: 

• As Director of HR for the Travelodge, Jim led his organization to become the first employer in Saskatchewan history to be COR (Certificate of Recognition) certified by our association

• Joined and served on the Service Hospitality board of directors for over 10 years

• Served as CEO of Service Hospitality for over three years

• Jim began and co-developed the youth education training program, which now reaches approximately 10,000 kids a year in over six school divisions across the province

• Began and co-developed our “newcomers” introduction to safety, which is expected to reach almost 1,000 newcomers/immigrants this year alone

Jim has been a passionate advocate for health and safety in his own industry and virtually every industry across the province. Here are two you may not be aware of, but you should be:

• Jim led and relentlessly pursued the lobbyist movement against the WCB, which resulted in almost $430 million dollars being returned to employers to invest in their staff, their businesses and health and safety

• Started and, through sheer force of will, maintained Youth Safety Education Day. This event has grown from being merely a day proclaimed by the government for the first time in 2012 to an activity which this year will have 200 participating organizations and approximately 40,000 kids participating.  Events like this and the youth initiative he started are the main reason kids in the hospitality and community services sector are reducing their injuries three times faster than any other demographic.

Jim, THANK YOU for being the storm, the whirlwind and the earthquake we needed to make this province a little safer! Congratulations! 

Safety Centered Leadership Award	Jim Bence, CEO of SHHA receiving the SCLA award from George Marshall, CEO of Service Hospitality

Below are some event photos courtesy of Grant Romancia Photography! Thank you for capturing these memories for us!