A safe and healthy living environment for everyone, indoors and outdoors.
Life Safety & Environment
By having all our expertise under one roof, we unburden our clients of all their concerns when it comes to testing, inspections, certifications & compliance. Our goal is to genuinely help our clients with sound independent research and crystal-clear reports that are based on our client-oriented approach.

Life Safety & Environment
Normec Life Safety & Environment tests, inspects and certifies all aspects of innovative construction, infrastructure, environmental management and safety & quality systems. We apply our knowledge, experience and technology in areas that have a short term impact on public health and safety, such as drinking-water quality, air quality and fire safety. And in sub-areas that have a long-term impact on health and the environment, such as soil quality, surface water quality and air analyses. We also focus our services on a fair labour market.
In short, we offer our customers the right tools to guarantee a safe working and living environment. We do this by deploying our knowledge, experience & controls, with which our experts help you conduct safe and effective business, manage risks and continuously improve. In doing so, we always have tomorrow in mind. A future with fewer CO2 emissions and a thriving circular economy.
We ensure a safe working and living environment with services such as:
- Certification of materials, personnel, processes and quality management.
- Monitoring, improving and securing safety and quality systems.
- Inspecting compliance with laws and regulations surrounding the labour market.
- Inspection of fire safety and additional security protocols.
- Testing of (drinking-)water quality, to prevent legionella contamination.
- Testing and inspection of electrical and mechanical installations, ensuring safe buildings.
- Testing infrastructure, such as lampposts and wall anchors.
- Monitoring waste and recycling streams.
- Limiting noise and odour pollution.
- Monitoring surface water and drainage.
- Independent testing of water and soil samples.
- Improving and monitoring air quality and hygiene.

Normec AquaServa
Normec AquaServa is an independent consultancy firm dedicated to building safety, with its own installers and inspectors all over the Netherlands. Safety is the most important aspect for any building manager. The specialists at Normec Aquaserva are fully acquainted with the safety standards set for organisations for this purpose. Water safety, fire safety, safety inspections and a healthy indoor environment are part of the total package created by Normec AquaServa to cover all safety aspects of buildings.
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Normec All Water Services (AWS)
Normec All Water Services (AWS) the accredited and independent agency in the field of sampling and analysis of wastewater, surface water and outdoor swimming water. As a leading specialist in the field of inspection and testing of environment-related activities, we spare you the burden with our professionalism, expertise and quality of service. We take care of the entire process from sampling, analyses to the final reports.
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Normec Certification
Normec NCK is an accredited certification body (by the Dutch Accreditation Council, reg. no. C234 and C274) and market leader in the field of asbestos, building materials and soil. Our expert and experienced inspectors in the field of quality, environmental issues and safety help customers to achieve sustainable improvements. With our certification services organisations gain detailed insight into their quality, efficiency and safety levels.
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Normec Certiprotect
Since 2012 Normec Certiprotect has been active as an independent examination agency for safety exams in electrical engineering. We deal with the testing of persons working in electrical engineering or gas technology. Participants of (Stipel) safety training courses can take their exam with us and obtain a certificate. Safety comes first. That is why we always put safety before the success rate.
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Normec Fair Labour Certification (FLC)
Normec Fair Labour Certification (FLC) is an accredited institution (by the Dutch Accreditation Council, reg. no. I233). Normec FLC supports organisations with inspections and check whether they (still) meet the requirements of the various standards and quality marks. Normec FLC is authorized to carry out inspections for the SNA quality mark, the SNF quality mark, the ABU and the NBBU, amongst others.
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Normec Fire Safety and Security (FSS)
Normec Fire Safety & Security (FSS) is an accredited inspection body, which is able to handle the entire inspection process to ascertain a certified level of fire safety. Proper, efficient inspections of fire safety installations are the specialism of our highly experienced and skilled inspectors. The mission of Normec FSS is to ensure optimum levels of fire safety in the Netherlands.
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HYBETA
HYBETA (derived from HYgiene, BEratung and Technische Analysen) is an independent hygiene institute, which focuses on supporting hospitals in implementing legal requirements.
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Normec ISEC
Normec ISEC is the advisory and training partner in the safety branch and offers certified training in the safety sector for industry, wind energy and rope access at a fully equipped training centre in Melsele (Belgium). Our clients are internationally oriented companies within the heavy industry and chemical sector as well as the wind energy and maritime sector.
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Normec Kalsbeek
Normec Kalsbeek is the leading research and consultancy company in the area of water safety with a wide range of sophisticated solutions and products that have been developed in-house. Normec Kalsbeek also has the right solution where water quality is concerned for your business operations, cooling and/or heating installations. Normec Kalsbeek has all the necessary expertise for safe drinking and process water for you at its disposal.
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Normec Laboratory
Normec Laboratory is an accredited laboratory (by the Dutch Accreditation Council, reg. no. L330) for research into and monitoring of sand, gravel, debris particles, concrete and asphalt. Construction demands guaranteed and reliable quality. Quality control of your building materials by our experts is therefore essential. Our laboratory focuses specifically on determining the quality of a variety of building materials and on supporting our clients in the certification of products.
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Normec NCK
Normec NCK is an accredited certification body (by the Dutch Accreditation Council, reg. no. C501 and C626) in the field of safety, quality and environmental issues. Our expert and experienced inspectors are committed to investing in a long-term relationship. Our goal is to have your workable and manageable system validated with a certificate and/or accreditation.
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Normec OWS
Normec OWS is the world leader in determining biodegradability and compostability. Normec OWS offers testing and services related to biodegradability, compostability, anaerobic digestion, auditing, control & sorting of various waste streams and consulting for sustainable development.
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Normec Rei-Lux
Normec Rei-Lux is an measuring company that measures the stability of lampposts and similar anchored structures using a patented 3D measuring system. The measurements are aimed at extending the life expectancy of the structures, thereby reducing costs and avoiding any unnecessary CO2 emissions.
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Normec Servaco
Normec Servaco is an accredited, independent, multidisciplinary laboratory in Belgium providing industrial analysis and research. The experts in the environmental and architectural departments work closely together and guarantee effective, expert service. Normec Servaco is at the cutting edge of the market and is known for its outstanding customer service and broad testing capabilities.
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Normec uppenkamp
Normec uppenkamp is the consultancy firm in Germany dealing with noise pollution, odours, air pollutants and building physics. We offer our clients in-depth expertise in terms of advice, projections, measurement, approvals and assessments. Clients choose Normec uppenkamp because of the interdisciplinary make-up of the team, the sophisticated technical equipment and the personal contact.
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Normec VRO
Normec VRO is an accredited institution (by the Dutch Accreditation Council, reg. no. I203). Normec VRO inspects and certifies companies that aim to distinguish themselves in the realm of fair labour. In cooperation with sector organisations, we are actively involved in the development of new standards and frameworks for a range of sectors. Normec VRO is authorised to carry out inspections for the SNA quality mark, the SNF quality mark, the ABU and the NBBU, amongst others.
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VQZ
VQZ Bonn GmbH (VQZ) was founded in 1996 and has its headquarters in Bonn. VQZ certifies quality management systems such as ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 and environmental and safety systems such as ISO 45001, ISO 14001, MAAS-BGW and SCC). Our customers are mainly healthcare companies, business and industrial service providers.
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