is there a standard emt uniform? - metal badge and button

The answer to this question seems to be much harder than you think.
For most other professionals in public safety uniforms, such as police officers, sheriff's and firemen, although the specific colors in different departments may change slightly, the overall appearance of the actual uniform itself is very similar in many branches of the same industry.
This consistency in the clothing that these different departments choose to equip their employees creates a recognizable standard for their uniforms across the country, and most of the public knows without even considering it.
To a large extent, if you see a man or woman in a dark blue paramilitary costume with a badge and a work belt, you know you're looking at a legal officer, they should be respected to a certain extent.
But for everyday EMS professionals, what is this uniform standard that is easy to identify?
Except when you see them, they jump out of an ambulance, will you quickly recognize the emergency or caregiver at the scene of the accident?
Well, it turns out that EMS professionals wear different uniforms in different states and in different companies.
For some first aid workers and carers, their uniforms are very similar to those of law enforcement officers.
Many EMS workers look very professional in A class A or Class B uniform shirt with buttons on the front and two pockets on the chest, collar, epaulettes and military creases.
Dark blue is often also associated with police, a very common color among EMS and fire EMS professionals.
Although, there are many departments that choose the location of the white shirt and match it with black or dark blue trousers.
With this A/B look, many units also have metal badges and name tags to identify who they are.
They may also indicate their location in the EMS patch.
Pants worn by most EMS workers are often the best place to determine their profession, as EMT pants are very unique.
Keys in all pockets
Not only do they have regular front and back pockets, they also have a lot of pockets on their legs, not just regular cargo pockets.
There are many special pockets for special EMS equipment, such as gloves and stethoscope, etc.
Looks like that's the standard, right? Not so fast.
In addition to this A/B look, there are A lot of different looks in today's Department.
They usually wear A professional polo shirt that looks more casual than A button for A Type A shirt.
This shirt can still be identified by embroidered EMS logo or font, although the recognition ability as a badge and patch is slightly lower.
Some units are not even as trendy as polo shirts and actually choose to wear a solid color T-
Shirt with large EMS, caregiver or EMT font on the back and EMS badge on the front chest.
As you would expect, this more comfortable look is not as respected as the very funky A look of the early days.
So, in the area of emergency medical services, the difference in uniforms clearly shows us that one uniform doesn't seem to be standardized, but there seems to be a bit of debate about what EMS professionals should wear.
To differentiate itself from other public safety professionals, or to be the right type of clothing to suit their specific working conditions, it seems that there should be some standard for EMT uniforms, but no one, at least in the United States, it seems possible to agree on what this uniform should be.
In the next article in this series, we will focus on what kind of uniform some EMS professionals think might be the best solution for a more standardized EMT uniform.
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