Emergency Response Management

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

    ServiceNow® Emergency Response Management applications support organizations in managing business continuity during emergencies such as natural disasters and pandemics like COVID-19. These applications automate and streamline communication, health status reporting, exposure tracking, and safe return-to-work processes to keep employees informed, connected, and safe throughout emergency situations.

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    Key Features

    • Emergency Outreach: Enables sending notifications to users via email, mobile push, SMS, or other channels to share critical emergency and safety updates. It also supports sending Employee Readiness Surveys to assess workplace return readiness.
    • Emergency Self Report: Allows users to report their health status during a crisis, triggering workflows that facilitate safe return-to-work procedures and notify relevant functions such as HR.
    • Emergency Exposure Management: Identifies individuals potentially exposed to infectious diseases by analyzing meetings, locations, shifts, reservations, badge scans, and Wi-Fi access logs related to affected users.
    • Emergency Response Management for Now Mobile: Enables users to respond to outreach messages and self-report health status conveniently via the Now Mobile app.
    • Safe Workplace Guided Setup: Provides a step-by-step configuration process for Safe Workplace and Emergency Response Management apps, simplifying implementation on your ServiceNow instance.
    • Domain Separation Support: Supports service provider use cases with domain separation features for Emergency Response Management applications.

    Deployment and Environment Support

    • Commercial On-Premise: Download and install from the ServiceNow Store.
    • Federal Customers: Apps are available for IL4 or FedRAMP environments without special requests. Federal on-premise customers should contact their sales representative or ServiceNow Support for installation assistance.
    • Configuration Responsibility: Customers must configure applications to comply with applicable U.S. federal regulations and organizational policies.

    Important Notices

    • Organizational Responsibility: Implementation decisions and compliance with legal obligations—including data protection and employment laws—are the sole responsibility of the organization using the applications. ServiceNow does not provide legal advice, and organizations should customize templates accordingly.
    • Government Agencies: Use is offered free of charge for a limited or extended period with no payment obligations. Agencies must confirm ethical approvals and are responsible for legal compliance and template customization.

    Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

    By deploying Emergency Response Management, customers can efficiently mobilize emergency communications, monitor employee health status, identify exposure risks, and manage safe workplace re-entry processes. The integration with the Now Mobile app enhances user engagement and responsiveness during crises. Guided setup tools simplify deployment, and support for various environments ensures compliance with organizational and federal requirements.

    ServiceNow® Emergency Response Management applications help your organization mobilize its business continuity efforts during natural disasters and pandemics like COVID-19. Streamline and automate activities on multiple fronts to keep everyone informed and connected as you anticipate or experience emergencies.

    Emergency Response Management applications include:
    Emergency Outreach
    Stay connected with users via email or mobile push notifications. Share important information regarding emergency and safety measures, and ask users to report their status and location. With the installation of Employee Readiness Surveys, you will use Emergency Outreach to send a survey link to help you evaluate whether users are ready to return to the workplace.
    Emergency Self Report
    Enable your users to report their health status. If users report they are going into quarantine, a workflow helps them safely return to work when ready. Functions such as HR can also be alerted.
    Emergency Exposure Management
    Identify users who might have been exposed to an infectious disease by analyzing an affected user's meetings, locations, shifts and reservations, and badge scans.
    Emergency Response Management for Now Mobile
    Enable your users who use the Now Mobile app to respond to Emergency Outreach push messages and also self-report their health status.
    Use the Emergency Response Management applications together to automate workflows for sharing information with users, assessing the impact on your team, and responding to the emergency event.
    Figure 1. Emergency response app workflow from self-reporting to assessing exposure to requesting user health status check-in
    Manage user status end-to-end
    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.

    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.

    Domain separation support for Emergency Response Management applications

    You can learn about domain separation support for service provider use cases in each Emergency Response Management application's topic.