环境与职业医学 (Oct 2022)

Hygiene risks and management advices for "Room Escape" venues

  • Shuai JIANG,
  • Xiaohu REN,
  • Yanpeng CHENG,
  • Jinshu FENG,
  • Yanmin QIN,
  • Yinsheng GUO,
  • Shuyuan YU,
  • Jiajia JI

DOI
https://doi.org/10.11836/JEOM22115
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 39, no. 10
pp. 1160 – 1164

Abstract

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In recent years, the "Room Escape" industry in China is booming, and this real live game has become popular. However, health threatening events such as fire, trauma, coma, and lung infection in the game venues have been reported at home and abroad. If these venues are not supervised in time, there will be great potential public safety and health hazards. In this review, we summarized the hidden dangers of public safety and health in such venues, including fire and safety hazards, persistent stress state, indoor ventilation problems, risk of contagious infection, non-player characters’ health risk, special film effects of 4D cinemas, mosquito problems, light pollution and noise, and food safety. Meanwhile, health management recommendations for the game venues were proposed from the aspects of formulating health management standards, improving health security measures, and strengthening related health education to players, so as to improve the hygiene levels of such venues and protect players and staff from injuries or diseases.

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