Sustainable growth report 2024

That is why we focus on reducing risks through continuous improvements in vessel reliability and by strengthening safe behaviours. Our ambition is to build a safety culture in which safety is not just a priority, but a visible and integral part of our everyday operations.

Building a strong safety culture
Over the past years, Anthony Veder has taken important steps in strengthening its safety performance. This progress has been driven by one of our most valuable assets: a safety culture that is continuously improving.

Our ‘Everybody Home Safe program is built around five essential pillars:

• Visible & Felt Leadership
• Normative Safety & Compliance
• Measuring & Communication
• Learning & Development
• Safety Partnership

Together these pillars provide the foundation for how we work safely, learn from experience and continue to improve.

Creating awareness
Maintaining safety awareness and complying with our safety measures requires both visible and felt leadership. We reinforce this commitment through regular ship visits, training sessions, and seminars.

In January 2025, our annual Safety Event brought together both office and seafaring colleagues in Noordwijk Beach. Through a series of team-based activities, guided by the KNRM, participants were encouraged to strengthen collaboration, actively listen, and build mutual trust. Alongside the focus on safety and teamwork, the event also created valuable opportunities to connect with colleagues in an informal setting.

Measuring progress: Safety Culture Survey
To continuously measure our progress, we conducted a Safety Culture Survey in 2025, involving all seafarers, office colleagues and our manning agencies. The cultural survey follows the established methodology of the Hearts and Minds program. The outcome shows how mature an organisation’s safety culture is.

The culture ladder has five steps:

• Pathological ⟶ Safety is ignored
• Reactive ⟶ Action after accidents
• Calculative ⟶ Safety managed by rules and KPI’s.
• Proactive ⟶ Risks are fixed before accidents
• Generative ⟶ Safety is part of everything we do

The higher the level on this ladder, the more ownership, trust, and prevention. By using the same structure as previous years we are able to track our development over time, compare results and gain insight into how our safety culture continues to evolve. Based on both our safety performance and the survey outcomes, we can conclude that the actions taken following previous surveys have contributed to clear improvements in both safety performance and safety culture. Over this period, we have progressed from a reactive and calculative culture in 2013 to a proactive culture in 2025, reflected in an average score of 4.14.

While progress has been made across all areas, building a mature safety culture remains an ongoing journey. The survey results help us identify the areas that require further attention and guide our next steps for continuous improvement.

Collaborative safety partnerships
We are proud of our strong partnerships with customers and contractors, who play an important role in strengthening our safety culture.
Through joint initiatives we promote constructive dialogue that supports continuous and visible improvement.