About Safer Woodworking Ltd
Delivering Specialist Safety Training
With decades of hands-on industry experience, Bruce Keen founded Safer Woodworking Ltd to help businesses create safer, more efficient woodworking environments. Having worked with a wide range of machinery, power tools and workshop settings throughout his career, Bruce provides practical, real-world safety training tailored to the needs of each business.
Focused on helping operators properly understand their machines, Bruce combines expert knowledge with a straightforward, hands-on approach to reduce risk, improve confidence and encourage safer working practices across the woodworking industry.
What We Do
Helpful ideas
Not Just Woodworking
Not Just Woodworking
Here is a great example of the practical, adaptive thinking Bruce has encountered throughout his career and wanted to share. Finding new and effective ways to use traditional tools is exactly the kind of ingenuity that can make workplaces not only safer, but more efficient too.
Using bench holdfasts on a pillar drill is a simple yet highly
Here is a great example of the practical, adaptive thinking Bruce has encountered throughout his career and wanted to share. Finding new and effective ways to use traditional tools is exactly the kind of ingenuity that can make workplaces not only safer, but more efficient too.
Using bench holdfasts on a pillar drill is a simple yet highly effective solution for securing small or awkwardly shaped materials, offering greater stability without the limitations of a conventional vice setup.
Not Just Woodworking
Not Just Woodworking
Not Just Woodworking
Thanks to Bruce’s extensive hands-on experience and work with a wide range of clients, his expertise extends far beyond woodworking alone. Over the years, he has gained practical knowledge across multiple industries, working with a broad variety of machinery, equipment and power tools in diverse working environments.
Keeping Updated
Not Just Woodworking
The Internet is Full of Dangerous Practise!
Bruce regularly continues his professional development to ensure his knowledge remains fully up to date with current legislation, safety standards and best working practices across the industry. As part of this commitment, he attended specialist training at the HSE Science and Research Centre in Buxton, further strengthening his understan
Bruce regularly continues his professional development to ensure his knowledge remains fully up to date with current legislation, safety standards and best working practices across the industry. As part of this commitment, he attended specialist training at the HSE Science and Research Centre in Buxton, further strengthening his understanding of machinery safety, workplace compliance and operator protection.
The Internet is Full of Dangerous Practise!
The Internet is Full of Dangerous Practise!
The Internet is Full of Dangerous Practise!
Unsafe cutting and machining demonstrations are widely shared online, often without consideration for the risks involved or the impact they may have on those attempting to replicate them. Understanding how your machinery operates - and how to control it correctly - is essential to maintaining a safe working environment and reducing unnecessary risk.
Life is Serious
The Internet is Full of Dangerous Practise!
Inspiring Setups
A light-hearted take on just one of the many risks associated with unsafe machinery use.
There are countless ways that poor practice can lead to serious injury, which is why understanding your machinery, following safe procedures and encouraging good working habits is so important.
Let’s work together to create safer workshops for everyone.
Inspiring Setups
The Internet is Full of Dangerous Practise!
Inspiring Setups
Bruce believes the most effective training comes from real-world experience. By creating practical, hands-on setups that reflect genuine workplace situations, he delivers engaging and informative sessions that help operators better understand machinery, improve safe working practices and build confidence in day-to-day environments.
Masterful Woodworking Designs Showcase
