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The following Halloween safety tips will help keep you and your kids safe when visiting nearby haunted house events. Remember that haunted houses may be required to abide by fire and safety codes, and may be subject to inspections before the general public is allowed to attend. They may also be required to have a sprinkler system, early warning smoke or heat detectors, emergency lights, easy access doors, and other safety features. However, regulations may not be the same in all areas, and ultimately you are responsible for your own safety.

To stay safe while visiting a haunted house:

• Take a flashlight with you. Even though the safety lighting might be fine for others, it may not be great for you.
• If you are going with small children, attach a glow stick to their clothing so they can be easily found in the dark.
• If there are stairs in the haunted house, be sure to use handrails and walk, do not run, up or down the stairs.
• If visiting a haunted house in a group, have a meeting place in case you get split up.
• Know where the exits are before entering the haunted house. Some attractions will provide you a map of the house so you are aware of where you are going when inside.
• Keep an adult in the front and rear of your group going through the haunted house to help monitor young children so they do not stray.

Additional Haunted House Halloween Tips from ClassBrain

• Remember that things that seem barely spooky to you, may be enormously scary to young children. If you kids get too scared, it is time to end the event.
• If you have fairly young kids that are going to the haunted house for the first time with you, you might want to keep someone outside by the front door, just in case one of them gets scared, lost, or turned around and ends up separated and outside alone.
• Mommy and me elastic bracelets that have a stretchy cord between the adult's bracelet and the kid's bracelet, can help you to keep track of younger kids in case they let go of your hand in fright.