Keywords: health and safety, safety, lifeboats, boat, lifeboat accidents,

In peril on the sea

Becky Allen | Feature | HSW
11.01.2008

The history of the modern lifeboat - like many pieces of safety equipment - is a history of disaster. For the purposes of this story, two disasters are particularly relevant.

It was the sinking of the Titanic almost a century ago - when hundreds of passengers and crew were famously le ...

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