Health and Safety Testing

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    Summary of Health and Safety Testing

    The ServiceNow® Health and Safety Testing application helps organizations streamline health testing processes to reduce the spread of infectious diseases in the workplace. It enables organizations, where legally allowed, to either require health testing for users or allow users to request optional testing upon potential exposure notifications. Users can specify preferences such as test type, date, and location, while administrators coordinate scheduling and availability. After testing, users can submit results to meet organizational health and safety requirements, facilitating a safe return to work.

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    Integration with Safe Workplace Suite

    Health and Safety Testing is part of the ServiceNow Safe Workplace suite designed to support workforce and workplace readiness post-emergencies or pandemics like COVID-19. It integrates with applications such as:

    • Employee Readiness Surveys: Assess user readiness to return via surveys.
    • Employee Health Screening: Screen users for entry compliance (e.g., temperature checks, PPE).
    • Explore Workplace Core: Manage clean, socially distanced workspace configurations.
    • Workplace Personal Protective Equipment Inventory Management: Track PPE inventory.
    • Contact Tracing: Analyze user interactions using data like badge scans and contact logs to identify exposure risks.

    These applications collectively support a comprehensive approach to workplace safety.

    Use by Federal Customers

    Federal customers operating in IL4 or FedRAMP environments can install Safe Workplace suite applications on nonproduction instances without special requests. Licenses are needed for production use. Customers are responsible for configuring the applications to comply with applicable U.S. federal regulations.

    Installation instructions vary based on environment (commercial on-premise, federal hosted, federal on-premise) and are detailed in ServiceNow Store articles and support channels.

    Important Notices

    • Organizational Responsibility: Organizations implement the application at their own discretion and remain responsible for legal compliance related to data protection, employment laws, and any other applicable regulations. Out-of-the-box language is not legal advice and should be tailored.
    • Government Agencies: Offered free of charge for a limited period, with no future payment obligations. Government users must confirm ethical compliance and remain responsible for legal adherence. Implementation decisions and template modifications rest solely with the agency.

    Installation and Configuration

    • Installation requires admin role access.
    • Complete all configuration tasks to tailor Health and Safety Testing to your organization's requirements.

    Key Functionalities for Users and Administrators

    • Request COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests: Users can request tests when exposed, symptomatic, or for other reasons.
    • Report Test Results: Users can update their health status by submitting diagnostic test results.
    • Review Test Results: Users can access and attach documents to recent test records.
    • Confirm Test Results: Administrators can verify user-submitted test results via the Employee Readiness Core Approval Portal.
    • Health and Safety Testing Dashboard: Provides administrators with insights on testing trends, types of tests performed, and approval statuses.

    Streamline the user health testing process to help organizations reduce the spread of infectious diseases in the workplace.

    Request, schedule, and report testing with the Health and Safety Testing application.

    The ServiceNow® Health and Safety Testing application streamlines the user health testing process to identify affected users and help reduce the spread of infectious diseases in the workplace. It provides organizations, where they are legally required or permitted to use them, with two options: request that users get tested or allow users to request optional health testing upon being notified of potential exposure to an infectious disease, such as COVID-19. Users can submit health testing preferences such as test type and preferred testing date and location. Administrators can use the employee request forms to coordinate testing availability and scheduling. After health testing is complete, users can use Health and Safety Testing to provide a test result to satisfy the organization’s health and safety requirement, clearing the user for a safe return to the workplace.

    Use with other Safe Workplace suite applications

    Health and Safety Testing is part of a suite of ServiceNow® Safe Workplace suite applications. Use it with these other applications to help your organization prepare its workforce and workplaces to resume operations after emergencies and pandemics like COVID-19.
    • With the Employee Readiness Surveys application, evaluate the readiness of your users to return to the workplace by asking them to fill in a survey.
    • Before users re-enter workspaces, use the Employee Health Screening application to screen users and ensure compliance with your entry requirements, such as a temperature check and PPE.
    • With the Explore Workplace Core application, prepare for the return of users by configuring and maintaining clean and socially distanced workspaces for them to use.
    • You can manage the inventory of safety equipment for your workforce with the Workplace Personal Protective Equipment Inventory Management application.
    • With the Contact Tracing application, evaluate the readiness of your users to return to the workplace by using data such as badge scans, Wi-Fi access logs, and daily contact logs to help identify potential user interactions.

    All Safe Workplace suite applications are available in the ServiceNow Store.

    Safe Workplace suite for federal customers

    Federal customers using IL4 or FedRAMP environments will see the Safe Workplace suite applications ready and available to install on their nonproduction instances without having to make any special requests. Licenses are required to use Safe Workplace suite applications on production instances. Customers are responsible for configuring the apps to meet U.S. federal regulations and guidelines.

    Table 1. Installation instructions for self-hosted and federal environments
    Type Instructions

    Commercial on-premise

    Visit the ServiceNow® Store to download and install the application.

    Federal hosted

    See the Federal downloads for the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace suite apps [KB0030260] article in the Store Help Center for more information.

    Federal on-premise

    If you are a federal on-premise customer and you would like to install this application, reach out to your sales representative or open a Now Support or HIWAVE ticket. In the ticket, request to be routed to the SHOT team.

    See the Federal downloads for the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace suite apps [KB0030260] article in the Store Help Center for more information.

    On-premise

    See the Commercial downloads for the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace suite apps [KB0030258] article in the Store Help Center for more information.