Emergency equipment
Medical grab bag
- IMO code
- EES006
- ISO 7010 number
- E027
Where you will meet it
In the hospital or on the bridge, depending on how the ship is organised.
What it means in practice
A medical grab bag to take to the scene of an accident, so nobody has to run across the whole ship to the fixed first aid kit.
Legal basis
Annex to IMO resolution A.1116(30) (adopted 05.12.2017), table of emergency equipment location markings. Mandatory on ships built from 01.01.2019; older ships may carry signs per resolution A.760(18). Graphic pattern of the symbol: ISO 7010.
This is not a legal text: in any doubt the current wording of the resolution and regulations decides.
Download
Sign colours are normative. The file is public domain or CC0 (a Commons recreation of the symbol named by the IMO annex).