Uniform pants

[fortsmithman]

Does your agency require that reflective stripes on the uniform pant leg be used.

[rock_shoes]

Does your agency require that reflective stripes on the uniform pant leg be used.

Only a few flight paramedics have reflective pant stripes in BC. I do think they are a good idea if you have the option though.

[mobey]

In a word.... Yup.

[akroeze]

Haven't seen a service in Ontario that doesn't use 'em

[Richard B the EMT]

Sounds like a nice idea for crews working night time assignments in the streets (as opposed to inside or on sidewalks) where the vehicle traffic is not closed off, for whatever reason.

[Defiant1]

my service doesn't, its an individual choice, even though i think they're a good idea

[yoyo]

Hamilton (Ontario) EMS uses a 360 degree horizontal band on each leg as opposed to a stripe. This is to afford visibility in any direction as opposed to just when the individual is standing sideways to the onlooker. This would seem to be more in line with the ANSI 107 standard.

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=w...3JmXaMv2KuNIIXA

[Dustdevil]

Hamilton (Ontario) EMS uses a 360 degree horizontal band on each leg as opposed to a stripe.

Oh really? Then why doesn't this guy have them on his legs?

[Defiant1]

Oh really? Then why doesn't this guy have them on his legs?

he's expendable, that's why

[mobey]

Oh really? Then why doesn't this guy have them on his legs?

Just an observation:

I don't know who this is but I have a couple ideas as to why:

1st off I don't see the great Canadian "bought and paid for" beer belly. This absence leads me to believe this guy is not a canadian and may in fact be a U.S. EMT-B trying to impress the girls by sayin he is a Paramedic in ontario. So he puts on some Value Village uniform that looks like hammilton's and had his buddy pop off a pic next to one of thier rigs.

2nd possibility... I notice an impatient 1/2 smile, like as if to say "Do you know what I am capable of, back home I carry a glock in my boot". This makes me wonder if this preticular gentleman was a Play-by-his own rules, and refused to wear the stripes just to prove that he is an individual.

3rd possibility.... I gotta wonder how old this guy really is?? Ya the ambo in the back (possibly photo-shopped) looks fairly recent... but notice the radio on his left hip. Looks a little nostalgic to me, I am thinking this pic was taken sometime in the 70's.

Anywhoo, I did some googling and ran across this pic......hmmm