About Luminus Group
Luminus Group is widely known for inspirational leadership and innovation in housing services delivery. Seen by many as one of the most progressive businesses in the UK. Luminus leads the way in socially responsible business in eastern England, focusing on providing homes, employment and real estate services, building sustainable communities and energising hope for life’s best – today and for future generations.
Luminus prides itself on being an enthusiastic pioneer of innovative, independently financed schemes for high quality affordable housing that give people of all ages and backgrounds choice to rent or buy.
Strategically positioned in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, one of the UK’s fastest growing areas, Luminus provides homes for over 30,000 people, and is growing.
Luminus Drives the Way Forward
More than fifty tradesmen from Luminus Group have passed the Safe and Fuel Efficient Driving (SAFED) training programme with flying colours. Completing the SAFED driver training course is especially important as Luminus deals with more than 30,000 customers and 7,000 homes with a commitment to the highest quality customer care. Luminus has a substantial fleet of different types of vehicles and ninety-six drivers working within and serving residents of the local community. Their entire fleet of drivers have been trained and tis is now an ongoing process for all new employees.
Luminus also has an environmental policy, which considers how to reduce the environmental impact of all activities, and investigates and adopts examples of environmental best practice wherever possible.
By going through the SAFED driver training course Luminus tradesmen learn:-
- To drive more safely
- To drive with less stress
- To achieve a greater degree of fuel efficiency
Many of the tradesmen have also noticed a positive difference when driving their own cars.
The benefits of the course for the Luminus business are:
- Lower costs
- Reduced carbon dioxide emissions
- Improved environmental performance
Some of the positive comments made after the training:
“I found the advice from the trainer was very useful, I was surprised at how much difference was made to the fuel consumption by making just a few changes to the way I drove. I will be using this advice when I am driving my own car,”
and
“It is nearly 40 years since I passed my driving test and obviously over that time I had picked up one or two bad habits so I found it useful to have a refresher like this.”
Luminus tradesman Jamie Cameron shows off his SAFED driver training certificate
Chan Abraham, Luminus Group Chief Executive said,
“Luminus has a commitment to excellence in every aspect of our organisation. By including the SAFED training in Luminus’ excellent driver training programme, we create an ideal opportunity to minimise our environmental impact, reduce our road risk and increase the professionalism of our drivers.”
Light Commercial Vehicles (LCVs) play an important role in the country’s economy with activity in the United Kingdom in 2003 accounting for some 58 billion combined kilometers. Over 90% of this distance was in connection with the collection and delivery of goods, travel between home and workplace or journeys between jobs.