CORPORATE SECURITY SERVICES, INC. (CSS) APPERANCE STANDARDS
Personal Appearance and Hygiene. CSS considers professional appearance to include the wear of proper undergarments and accessories, as well as clean hair and fingernails.
Eyewear While on duty, CSS employees are required to wear conservative prescription eyeglasses of sunglasses, if needed. Faddish eyewear of any description is not acceptable. They may not wear sunglasses or darkly tinted glasses inside buildings without a physician’s waiver.
Jewelry With the exception of female employees (who may wear small, plain goldtone, silvertone, or pearl button earrings no larger than ¼” in diameter on their earlobes), CSS security personnel will not wear jewelry on any part of their head or face while on duty. Security personnel may not wear more than two rings per finger or two per hand, and they may not wear beads, necklaces, chains, bracelets, and similar jewelry that cannot be covered by the uniform.
Accessories CSS security personnel will not wear logos or accessories, other than those properly required by their uniform, while on duty.
Shirts CSS requires all security personnel on duty to wear long-sleeve shirts with the cuffs fully extended and buttoned. If approval by the client, during warm weather seasons, CSS allows personnel to wear short-sleeve shirts with one button open at the collar and the sleeves fully extended.
Hosiery While on duty, CSS security personnel will wear navy blue or black hosiery. CSS personnel understand that bare ankles or patterned hosiery are grounds for disciplinary action.
Undergarments CSS security personnel will wear white or neutral fully concealed undergarments. These items will have no lettering or design on them to ensure that they are not visible through the uniform shirt. Female guards must wear supportive brassieres.
Mustaches If a CSS security employee elects to grow a mustache, supervisors will ensure that it is neatly and evenly trimmed. No portion of the mustache will extend more than a half-inch beyond and a quarter inch below each corner of the individual’s upper lip.
Beards CSS requirements preclude security personnel wearing beards or chin and lip whiskers other than neatly trimmed mustaches. However, we realize that certain skin conditions can inhibit male officers from daily shaving. A guard afflicted with such an ailment (pseudofolliculitis barbae is one example) is required to provide CSS with a Board-certified medical doctor’s written confirmation of their condition. He must also agree to undergo and abide by the prescribed medical treatment. We require medical certification verifying such skin conditions and the need for shaving waivers to be submitted every 90 days, through the supervisor, to the client. CSS anticipates that the client may authorize a temporary Clean Shaving Waiver on a case by case basis. Under such a waiver, the affected guard may be allowed to wear a neatly trimmed beard, no longer than one-quarter inch long, but he is subject to continued dermatological treatment and periodically scheduled evaluations of his skin condition.
Hair (Females) While performing security duty as CSS employees, women must have clean, neatly styled hair or wigs of a natural color. They will not wear their have styled longer that 2 ½ inches in height or below the bottom of their collars. They will not wear extravagant styles or adorn their hair with items unless they are concealed as much as possible and blend in style and color with the hair.
Hair-Hairpieces (Males) CSS male employees are expected to have neatly groomed hair of a natural color that neither falls over their eyes or hangs below the top of the collar. They will keep their hair or hairpieces clean and styled in such a way that the length and /or bulk is not excessive and interfere with the proper wear of headgear, and does not appear ragged, unkempt, or extreme. Men are not permitted to wear decorations in their hair.