Presentation of 2025 Leaders in Safety Award to AB Roe Delgado Buot

In November, we were pleased to announce that AB Roe Delgado Buot had been chosen as winner of the 2025 Leaders in Safety (LiS) Award. AB Roe was selected by the Vroon Managing Board from a shortlist of three nominations submitted by our Deepsea and Offshore fleets.

Our winner AB Roe Buot is a valued crew member, currently serving on board high-heat tanker Iver Brilliant. His consistent and proactive commitment to safety has set a standard across all the vessels he has served on during his time with Iver Ships. In our December News Express magazine, you could read more about how his vigilance and proactive actions help in maintaining a safe working environment aboard. Mr. Roe does not merely stop unsafe acts, he sets an example to his peers, making him a true safety leader.

This week, AB Roe visited our Manila office, where he was thanked in person by Vroon CEO Martijn Schouten, Iver Ships Managing Director Leon van Duivendijk and Crewing Manager Rob Lokman. As well as a commemorative plate, AB Roe received a prize of USD 2,500 and a cheque for USD 2,500, made out to the charity of his choice, the Glorious King’s Cathedral-Tabuelan.

During last year’s earthquake and typhoon, members of the Cathedral organised donation drives and led relief operations. Even while their own church and community were greatly affected by the disasters, they chose to act, mobilising resources, time and effort to respond to the needs around them. Witnessing how the Glorious King’s Cathedral demonstrates leadership and service with such compassion, deeply inspired AB Roe and resulted in his decision to support the Cathedral with this donation.

Many congratulations to AB Roe on winning our Leaders in Safety Award for 2025. Your decisive actions, safety skills and professionalism help ensure a safe working place on board at all times.

About Vroon’s “Leaders in Safety Programme”

Every accident is one too many. At Vroon we truly believe that if we work together, it is possible to create an incident-free working environment, where we all return home safe and healthy after duty, to the ones we care for most.

We strive to make our vessels and workplaces safe places to be. This, in an industry that is inherently dangerous and where we are surrounded by hazards on a day-to-day basis. After any incident, we investigate what happened and what we should do to prevent a future reoccurrence.

We believe that by learning collectively we can prevent all significant incidents. In order to continue our journey towards a safer working place, we must apply safe ways of working and actively target behaviour. Our work in this area is never finished, as we must constantly improve our safety performance. As our environment changes, we need to adapt and change our awareness. We motivate each and every person to contribute towards the growth of a culture where working safely is a constant; working unsafely is simply unacceptable!

At Vroon, we believe in this long-term cultural change process, and we expect all colleagues, management and employees alike, to fully support this process. Our LiS programme has been successfully running since 2013. Through active participation and improved safety awareness, we are seeing that incidents can be prevented. The QHSE statistics confirm that our LiS programme really does bring results, with a significant reduction in incidents over recent years.