Emergency equipment
Stretcher
- IMO code
- EES005
- ISO 7010 number
- E013
Where you will meet it
At the stretcher lockers: usually the hospital, the engine room area and the deck.
What it means in practice
A stretcher for carrying a casualty is kept here. The shipboard standard is the basket stretcher, in which an injured person can be hoisted and carried through companionways safely.
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).