I encourage all haunted house owners to share a common goal to be prepared for dealing with Covid-19 safety guidelines. Reach out to all the local haunts around you and share this plan if they need one. If one haunted house makes the news of not preparing it can be open season on all haunts in your market by the bloodthirsty news. My advice if the news media wants an interview is just reference your plan! Every state has its own guidelines, so make sure you read up on your mandates. Click here to search your states resources
WHY HAUNTED ATTRACTIONS ARE DIFFERENT FROM OTHER MASS GATHERINGS It is important to remember the difference between haunted attractions and other venues for mass gatherings such as sports arenas, movie theaters, and concerts:
1. Capacity can be reduced/managed to allow for appropriate social distancing.
2. Seating positions on tram or hayrides and attractions are controlled by employees.
3. Exposure time is limited. Guests generally move throughout their experience, much like in an inter-city district or zone. The guests are not sitting in a single location, elbow-to-elbow, for an extended period.
4. A large percentage of attraction attendance is made up of family members and others who live in the same home and thus do not need to be physically distanced from each other.
It's not a perfect plan for everyone, so make changes where you need to to fit your own haunts needs. There are lots of links in the document from audio and video clips to promote safety at your park to graphics for signage, pretty much everything you need to be as safe as you can be. Having hand sanitizer station throughout your park is required. We have year round attractions here at Kersey Valley, so it was an easy add using Cintas that already provided us with all our sanitation station stand needs. Get a quote for your seasonal needs from your local store. www.cintas.com
I took information provided by the Fear Factory in Salt Lake and information from the CDC website. This plan has no logos or any haunts name on it, so you can just print it and use it. I have given credit to the Fear Factory for using parts of their plan, so if you share a modified version please give them credit.
Download the Word Document from this link.
Good Luck and I hope you can open and make a profit despite the disasters of 2020! What's next a cat 5 hurricane?
WHY HAUNTED ATTRACTIONS ARE DIFFERENT FROM OTHER MASS GATHERINGS It is important to remember the difference between haunted attractions and other venues for mass gatherings such as sports arenas, movie theaters, and concerts:
1. Capacity can be reduced/managed to allow for appropriate social distancing.
2. Seating positions on tram or hayrides and attractions are controlled by employees.
3. Exposure time is limited. Guests generally move throughout their experience, much like in an inter-city district or zone. The guests are not sitting in a single location, elbow-to-elbow, for an extended period.
4. A large percentage of attraction attendance is made up of family members and others who live in the same home and thus do not need to be physically distanced from each other.
It's not a perfect plan for everyone, so make changes where you need to to fit your own haunts needs. There are lots of links in the document from audio and video clips to promote safety at your park to graphics for signage, pretty much everything you need to be as safe as you can be. Having hand sanitizer station throughout your park is required. We have year round attractions here at Kersey Valley, so it was an easy add using Cintas that already provided us with all our sanitation station stand needs. Get a quote for your seasonal needs from your local store. www.cintas.com
I took information provided by the Fear Factory in Salt Lake and information from the CDC website. This plan has no logos or any haunts name on it, so you can just print it and use it. I have given credit to the Fear Factory for using parts of their plan, so if you share a modified version please give them credit.
Download the Word Document from this link.
Good Luck and I hope you can open and make a profit despite the disasters of 2020! What's next a cat 5 hurricane?
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