Emergency Exposure Management

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    Summary of Emergency Exposure Management

    The ServiceNow® Emergency Exposure Management application helps organizations identify users potentially exposed to infectious diseases by analyzing various data sources such as meetings, locations, shifts, Wi-Fi logs, and badge scans of affected users. It supports multiple tracing systems—including Microsoft Office 365 meetings, workspace reservations, employee logs, visitor logs, and proximity sensing data—to generate a list of potentially exposed individuals.

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    The application is part of the broader ServiceNow® Emergency Response Management suite, designed to assist companies in managing emergency situations like disease outbreaks. It also integrates with related applications such as Emergency Outreach and Emergency Self Report to enable health status self-reporting by users.

    Key Features

    • Multiple Data Source Integration: Uses diverse data sources for comprehensive exposure tracing.
    • Custom Tracing Systems: Allows setup of tracing systems using your own data sources to tailor exposure identification.
    • Guided Setup: Provides a Safe Workplace guided setup to configure Safe Workplace and Emergency Response Management applications efficiently within your ServiceNow instance.
    • Compatibility with Federal Environments: Available for IL4 and FedRAMP federal environments with installation options for commercial, federal hosted, and on-premise deployments.
    • Manual User Addition: Enables manual addition of users potentially exposed to an affected individual.
    • Domain Separation Support: Supports domain separation for service providers implementing the application.

    Practical Use and Setup

    After installation (which requires admin role), configure tracing systems for relevant data sources, set up diagnostic request tasks, and register Microsoft applications to enable exposure identification workflows. When a user self-reports a health condition, Emergency Exposure Management analyzes relevant data to identify other users who may have been exposed.

    Important Notices

    • Legal Responsibility: Organizations are solely responsible for compliance with laws and regulations, including data protection and employment laws. ServiceNow does not provide legal advice and recommends customizing template language accordingly.
    • Government Agency Use: Offered free of charge for government agencies with no future payment obligations. Agencies must confirm ethical approval and remain responsible for legal compliance.

    The ServiceNow® Emergency Exposure Management application helps identify users who might have been exposed to infectious diseases by analyzing multiple data sources such as meetings, location, shifts, Wi-Fi access logs, and badge scans of affected users.

    Emergency Exposure Management provides tracing systems to use the following data sources to generate a list of potentially exposed users:
    • Microsoft Office 365 meeting invite
    • Location of the ServiceNow user profile
    • Workspace reservation
    • Badge scan log
    • Wi-Fi access log
    • Employee daily log
    • Field service task
    • Visitors log
    • Handheld or wearable device proximity sensing data
    Note:
    Some of the tracing systems require you to install other Safe Workplace suite and Emergency Response Management applications. For more information, see Tracing systems in Emergency Exposure Management.
    You can also manually add users whom you know might have been potentially exposed to an affected user.

    In addition to using the base system tracing systems, you can set up a tracing system that uses your own data source to identify potentially exposed users. For more information, see Set up a tracing system for an exposure data source.

    Use guided setup to implement Safe Workplace suite apps
    The Safe Workplace guided setup provides a sequence of tasks that help you configure the Safe Workplace and Emergency Response Management applications on your ServiceNow instance. To open the Safe Workplace guided setup, navigate to Guided Setup > Safe Workplace Guided Setup. For more information about using the guided setup interface, see Using guided setup.

    Use with other Emergency Response Management applications

    Emergency Exposure Management was originally developed to monitor and aid in stopping the community spread of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19 among users. It is part of a suite of ServiceNow® Emergency Response Management applications built on the ServiceNow AI Platform® to assist companies in their emergency response efforts. You can also enable users to self-report their health status through the Emergency Outreach and Emergency Self Report applications, which are both available in the ServiceNow Store.

    Emergency Response Management for federal customers

    Federal customers using IL4 or FedRAMP environments will see the Emergency Response Management applications ready and available to install on their instances without having to make any special requests. 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.