Ambulance Tasmania is concerned more paramedics will be seriously injured as a rise in assaults against them continues.

Bridgewater man Mervyn Bowerman was sentenced to three months' jail on Monday for an unprovoked attack on a paramedic.

The Magistrates Court in Hobart heard the paramedic suffered physical and psychological trauma and was yet to return to work.

Ambulance Tasmania acting chief executive Paul Templar welcomed the sentence saying attacks were continuing on a daily basis and both patients and bystanders had been perpetrators.

"If the trend continues we will eventually end up with even more serious injury," he said.

Mr Templar said in recent years the violence had become an increasing problem.

"It's important that people understand that it's not acceptable and there will be a price to pay if people assault paramedics," he said.

Paramedics need to be better equipped: Union

Tim Jacobson, from the Health and Community Services Union (HACSU), said drugs such as ice had, in part, fuelled the spike in violence.

"Aggressive incidents happen on a daily basis now and because of the frequency are largely unreported," he said.

Mr Jacobson wants paramedics to be better equipped to deal with the abuse.

"We've obviously been lobbying very hard over recent years for personal duress alarms," he said.

Tasmania passed mandatory sentencing laws for assaults on police two years ago.

The State Government is considering extending those to cover paramedics and firefighters.