Uniforms

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Permalink Reply by Dave Bloom on March 24, 2009 at 1:24pm

Currently I'm with a fire department and t-shirts, job shirts and I have seen the occasional uniform shirt are all (I believe) purchased by the firemen's association. There is a washer and dryer on station.

One private I worked for, you went to the uniform shop. I purchased my own cargo pants but had the polos billed to the company. They gave me a pullover, but I had a deduction on my check for it. The Jacket I had was original for the company, they have changed twice, do not recall how it was paid for. Again, washer and dryer in house.

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Permalink Reply by Rocco on March 24, 2009 at 3:17pm

The company I work for buys uniform pants, shirts, mock turtle necks and jackets. There are washers and dryers in the stations. We have to buy our own boots, belts, t-shirt, and pull overs.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Kirkwood on March 24, 2009 at 7:44pm

We provide our employees with everything they are expected to wear at work except underclothes and socks.

Class A uniform - everybody gets a long-sleeve and a short sleeve white shirt, with patches, badge, nametag, etc., black uniform trousers, and uniform boots. White shirt is worn with necktie. Worn for ceremonies and special occasions, and by officers for business functions.

Class B uniform - Mocean short and long sleeve shirts with markings and collar brass, black trousers, boots, belt, etc. Mocean shirts are pull over and are commonly worn by bike teams. We adopted them as a work uniform because employees wanted something that would breathe better in our hot, humid summers. Blue over black for staff medics, grey over black for APPs, and white over black for officers. This is standard everyday ambulance wear.

Class B cyclist - Mocean shirts yellow.black, black shorts, black helmets with reflectives. Special events for the bike team.

Class C uniform - grey t-shirt and/or sweat shirt, black trousers etc. Worn for work details, extended deployments, etc..

PT uniform - grey shorts and t-shirt. Not provided. Authorized for up to 90 minutes per day.

Dress blue - provided for officers, honor guard members, and others on special authorization - our competition team, for example. Single breasted blue blouse and trousers, combination cap (white for officers, blue for staff), corfam shoes, shiny belt, patches and badges.

Turnout gear: NFPA 1951 USAR turnout gear, NFPA standard fire helmet and boots, extrication gloves.

Chemical PPE - APR mask, tyvek suit, chemical boots, tape for sealing.

All stations have washers and dryers. Most membes do their laundry at home.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Collopy on March 24, 2009 at 9:15pm

Sounds like a great program. What do you do if someone's gets contaminated on a run? Free replacement? a cost? How many employees do you have? I wonder what services with smaller budgets do.

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Permalink Reply by anna m mills on March 25, 2009 at 2:47pm

We give each member that joins and runs ems a full uniform. The local dry cleaner gives us a reduced fee if we want to dry clean your uniform. But they can be washed anywhere. I always chose dry cleaner just for the looks and cleaning at my house I didn't feel comfortable. If you get contaminated you have a protocall that you are to follow. Starting with contacting the proper people with-in our organization.
We are run by our local twp as far as the funding, each agencies is left to spend their monies on uniform and cleaning as they feel. But it's the same per agency that we supply boots, pants , shirts, badges, and fire gear if you are a fire co. and ems jackets for safety. My co is fire/rescue/ems so we supply the gear for all three, and have a cleaning proto call in place.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Kirkwood on March 25, 2009 at 5:10pm

Mostly contamination is removed by washing. We've replaced a couple of sets of turnout gear after a paint truck collision and extrication.

We have 165 FT and 40 PT employees. Much the same programs are utilized by our smaller contract EMS agencies (private non-profits).

When they wear out we replace them.

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Kevin Collopy said:

Sounds like a great program. What do you do if someone's gets contaminated on a run? Free replacement? a cost? How many employees do you have? I wonder what services with smaller budgets do.

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Permalink Reply by Nicole Williamson on March 29, 2009 at 12:31pm

I work for a private service and uniforms are supplied to us. Full-time employees are given three uniforms (I think) and as a part-time employee we get one. We receive a button down shirt, a polo, a pullover, pants and a winter coat. We are responsible for anything above and beyond that.
For the volunteer service I'm with, we get a jacket and depending on how much money we have, on occassion, we'll get a pull-over, sweatshirt, t-shirt...etc. But nothing standard.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Collopy on March 29, 2009 at 7:16pm

does anyone not have uniforms supplied to them?

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Permalink Reply by Kerry McCorkle on March 29, 2009 at 9:34pm

I work for two services. The first gave me 1 uniform shirt and two tee shirts and a jacket with a removeable liner. The second service gave me 2 long sleeve uniform shirts, two short sleeve uniform shirts and two pair of pants and no jacket because I have one from my first service. As far as cleaning we are on our own

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Permalink Reply by Mike Rettinger on April 2, 2009 at 1:40pm

I work for a hospital based service. They provide us a winter coat to wear. We have to turn them back in if we leave. No allowance for any other uniforms.

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Permalink Reply by john walsh on April 3, 2009 at 8:58pm

I work for a private and Public servce. Uniforms are provided by the company at both places. Laundry services are at the stations. I did work for a private service in Lancaster Ohio were you paid for the uniform rentals and cleaning. it was 18 dollars from your pay.

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