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Despite what pop culture, and millions of first aid kits sold worldwide (to the chagrin of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies) would have you believe, this is not an “accepted” symbol designating First Aid. It’s actually logo of the parenthetically aforementioned international do-good-ers.
Keep in mind, those are some heavy quotation marks around “accepted” in that first paragraph. The Red Cross’ mark is so ubiquitous in pop, consumer and medical cultures that you would have an easy time arguing with anyone, but the actual Red Cross, that it is an accepted sign of urgent or emergency care. The true internationally accepted symbol for first aid is a white cross on a green background.
Many first-aiders use the star of life, rather than either of these. It is also an accepted first-aid symbol, but is mostly associated with Ambulance crews or other professional emergency responders.
I think white cross with green background is the most suitable for First aid but when we are oganizeing First Aid centre or Service, What is the logo we should use? Is it same ? I sugest yes,
hey thanx a lot for the information … it helped me a lot for my project…
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Also of note, the rod in the middle of the star of life is the Rod of Asclepius, not the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus“>Caduceus, as it is often and incorrectly referred to as. Rod of Asclepius is all about healing while the Caduceus is more about commerce, and only partially about medicines.
I concur. The star of life is super-sweet.
The star of life looks much cooler than the red cross.