RULE 403.

(b) The employer shall see that all basket type stretchers are equipped with regulation type mattresses, and shall have such stretchers always available on vessels being loaded or unloaded where stretchers are not immediately available on shore. Such basket type stretchers, and not cargo boards, shall be used for moving injured employees. Stretcher slings shall be shackled to cargo runners on standing gear. The stretcher slings must have a large eye to enable them to be placed over large cargo hooks on cranes etc. when slings cannot be shackled.