Emergency Self Report

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    Summary of Emergency Self Report

    The ServiceNow Emergency Self Report application enables users to notify their organization of their health status during a crisis and supports a workflow for safely returning to work. It offers a digital alternative to manual reporting methods by capturing and consolidating user health data automatically, facilitating analysis and response. Different views are provided for users, managers, and response teams to efficiently manage and monitor health-related information.

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    Key Features

    • User Reporting: Users report their health status and inform managers and global response teams when ready to return to work. If ServiceNow Contact Tracing is installed, quarantine reports automatically create or update related cases.
    • Manager Monitoring: Managers can access summaries of their team’s health statuses, view individual details, reassign tasks if needed, and submit reports on behalf of users without access.
    • Response Team Dashboard: Response teams have an overview dashboard to track all self-reported users’ statuses, with sortable data for effective analysis and action.
    • HR Tasks: Self-reports generate HR tasks linked to crisis tasks, which response teams can review and manage according to organizational policies.
    • Integration with Emergency Response Management Suite: The application works alongside other Emergency Response Management apps like Emergency Exposure Management and Emergency Outreach for comprehensive crisis management.
    • Guided Setup: Safe Workplace guided setup assists in configuring the suite of related applications efficiently.
    • Domain Separation: Supports use cases for service providers requiring domain separation.

    Deployment and Compliance

    • Available for commercial, federal, on-premise, and hosted environments with specific installation guidance.
    • Federal customers using IL4 or FedRAMP environments can install without special requests but must configure apps to comply with regulatory requirements.
    • Organizations and government agencies are responsible for ensuring legal compliance, including data protection and employment laws, and must customize application templates accordingly.
    • Government agencies are offered the application free of charge with no payment obligations to ServiceNow and must verify usage permissions with their Ethics Offices.

    Practical Use for ServiceNow Customers

    ServiceNow customers can implement Emergency Self Report to streamline health status reporting during emergencies, reduce manual effort, and improve response coordination. Managers gain visibility into team health impacts, enabling workload adjustments, while response teams can efficiently analyze data and execute HR processes related to crises. The integration with other Emergency Response Management apps enhances the organization's ability to manage exposure notifications and communication effectively.

    Setting up the application involves installation, configuring user access, establishing a knowledge base, and setting system properties. Crisis task administrators can bulk import health data to create tasks, enhancing scalability during widespread incidents.

    During a crisis, the ServiceNow® Emergency Self Report application gives users a way to notify their organization of their health status. It also provides a workflow for qualified users to safely return to work. Managers and response teams can track user reporting.

    In contrast to email or phone reporting and manual data consolidation, Emergency Self Report provides a digital workflow that captures and automatically rolls up user reporting data for analysis and action. The application offers benefits for various people within the organization, with different views displayed for various roles.

    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.

    Users can report their status

    A menu-driven interface enables users to report their status to their managers. Users can use the same interface to update their manager and global response team when they are ready to return to work. Managers can notify users when they may return.
    Figure 1. User view
    Users can self-report and select their health status

    If ServiceNow® Contact Tracing is installed, a case is created automatically for a user who self-reports as being in quarantine. If an active case exists for the user at the time of reporting, a note is added to the case for the self-reporting.

    Managers can monitor the status of their teams

    Managers can view a summary of their team’s reported status and the details of an individual person. They can reassign an affected user’s work to others on the team if the work is tracked in the ServiceNow instance. If users don't have access to the application, the manager can submit a report on their behalf.

    Figure 2. Manager view
    Managers can see status for all direct reports, and see what tasks they need to reassign

    Response teams can view the status of all teams

    Response teams can view an overview dashboard that summarizes the status for all self-reported users. Data can be viewed and sorted in multiple ways for analysis and action.

    Figure 3. Response team view
    Response team overview dashboard with customization options for at-a-glance status

    Response team can work with HR tasks

    HR tasks are created when a user self-reports. Each HR task is associated with a self-reported crisis task. The response team member can navigate to Emergency Self Response > HR tasks to view the list.

    Figure 4. HR tasks
    HR task list

    HR tasks do not have a specific workflow associated with them. They are created in the Open state, and closing the associated crisis task does not affect the HR task. Your organization can determine how to use or manage HR tasks, if at all. Review the HR task form to determine whether it can be of use within your response strategy.

    Use with other Emergency Response Management applications

    Emergency Self Report was originally developed to monitor and aid in stopping the community spread of COVID-19 among users. It is part of the suite of ServiceNow® Emergency Response Management applications built on the ServiceNow AI Platform® to assist companies in their emergency response efforts. With the Emergency Exposure Management application, you can identify users who might have been exposed. You can then contact affected users through the Emergency Outreach application. Both applications are 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.