Guarantee of sustainable and environmentally conscious action

As the largest certification body in the Netherlands in the field of quality, environment and safety, Normec Certification offers market parties a welcome helping hand around the certification process. From a smart one-stop-shop concept, the company focuses on sustainability and the reduction of environmentally harmful aspects. A focus that leads to crystal-clear insight into the environmental impact of business processes and a firm grip on the matter. 

In 2023, most organizations are sufficiently aware of the need to operate in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way. The big question in many cases, however, is how to successfully organize and ensure this in everyday practice. As part of the Normec Group, Normec Certification and Normec QS (see article elsewhere in this edition) are pleased to contribute to this. With superb certification solutions that expose the impact of business operations and provide tools for successful and environmentally friendly operations. "There are various ways of making your own environmental impact transparent and keeping it under control," says commercial director Arjen Werkmeester. "Think about checking your energy bill and taking energy-saving measures from there. Or calculating the actual consumption of your machinery. Just two initiatives with which you lay the foundation for acting more environmentally aware and at the same time take steps towards your own future and the formulated climate goals. Moreover, in many cases such a policy leads to major cost reductions. For example, using the five-level CO₂ Performance Ladder, a tool that helps companies and governments reduce CO₂ and costs, can easily save tens of thousands of euros. And that in turn ensures that you as a company can be more competitive and therefore more promising in bids or tenders. Especially if you are a little higher up the ladder. In short, understanding the environmental impact of your business benefits both the planet and your own wallet. At the same time, you make yourself more competitive and place a favorable footprint for the next generation." 

Certification

With the CO₂ Performance Ladder calls Werkmeester a tool that provides Normec with additional value as a knowledgeable certifying body. "Organizations know the need to conduct their business activities and processes as sustainably as possible," he says. "The CO₂ Performance Ladder encourages this behavior." Because the CO₂ Since the Performance Ladder is based on a company's own ambition and input, organizations take stock of their own performance. Normec Certification is a partner that then assesses them. Everything is available within the company walls of the certification specialist. For example, one of the company's own auditors checks, via a documentation review and various interviews within all levels of the company, whether the organization in question has made sufficient efforts to meet the set requirements. "The assessment for the CO₂ Performance Charger is done by experienced experts who know what is going on in the customer's market and what realistic goals are," Werkmeester once again emphasizes Normec Certification's expertise. "Within our solutions, practicality always comes first."