Emergency Response Management
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Summary of Emergency Response Management
ServiceNow® Emergency Response Management applications are designed to help organizations coordinate business continuity during emergencies such as natural disasters and pandemics like COVID-19. These applications streamline communication, automate workflows, and keep users informed and connected before, during, and after emergency events.
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Key Features
- Emergency Outreach: Enables organizations to send notifications via email, SMS, or mobile push to share critical safety information and request status updates from users. It supports additional communication channels as configured.
- Emergency Self Report: Allows users to report their health status during a crisis, triggers workflows to manage quarantine and safe return-to-work processes, and notifies relevant functions like HR. Managers can monitor user reports.
- Emergency Exposure Management: Identifies potential exposure to infectious diseases by analyzing data such as meetings, locations, shifts, badge scans, and Wi-Fi access logs of affected users to help contain and respond to outbreaks.
- Emergency Response Management for Now Mobile: Enables users to receive outreach notifications and submit health self-reports directly from the Now Mobile app, facilitating timely communication and response.
- Safe Workplace Guided Setup: Provides a step-by-step configuration process to implement the Safe Workplace and Emergency Response Management applications efficiently within your ServiceNow instance.
Deployment and Compliance
Emergency Response Management applications are available for commercial, federal, and on-premise ServiceNow environments, with specific installation instructions for each. Federal customers using IL4 or FedRAMP environments can install the apps without special requests but must configure them to comply with relevant U.S. federal regulations.
These applications support domain separation for service provider use cases, allowing secure multi-tenant configurations.
Important Notices
- Organizational Responsibility: Implementing these applications is at the sole discretion of the organization. ServiceNow does not guarantee compliance with laws or regulations, and organizations must ensure their own legal and regulatory adherence, including modifying out-of-the-box templates as needed.
- Government Agencies: Government use is offered free of charge for a limited or extended period, with no payment obligations to ServiceNow. Agencies must confirm ethical approval for use and remain responsible for legal compliance and customizing templates accordingly.
Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
- Automate and simplify emergency communications and health status tracking to maintain workforce safety and business continuity.
- Gain visibility into potential infectious disease exposures using integrated data analysis, enabling proactive response.
- Leverage mobile capabilities through the Now Mobile app for real-time engagement with employees during emergencies.
- Utilize guided setup tools to quickly deploy and configure the suite, ensuring a faster time to value.
- Support compliance efforts by tailoring communication templates and workflows to meet organizational and regulatory 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 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 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 . 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.
| 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.
Notice regarding use by organizations
All decisions in connection with the implementation of this application are at the sole decision of the Organization utilizing this application. Organizations agree that use of the application is not a representation by ServiceNow regarding the application’s compliance with any law or regulation and any suggested language provided out of the box with the application does not constitute legal advice by ServiceNow.
Organizations remain solely responsible for complying with their legal obligations under applicable law, including (but not limited to) data protection and employment laws, and should modify any language within the templates provided to meet the Organizations’ specific requirements.
Notice regarding use by government agencies
ServiceNow is offering this application to government agencies and their authorized users, not to employees of government agencies in their individual capacities. Use of this application is being offered free of charge for a limited or extended time period and with no expectation of payment from the government agency to ServiceNow for use during that time period, nor does usage create an actual or implied future obligation on behalf of the government. ServiceNow hereby expressly waives any future claims for payment from the agency in connection with usage of the application. Government customers are solely responsible to confirm with the agency’s Ethics Office or its authorized representative that acceptance and usage of the application is permissible.
All decisions in connection with the implementation of this application are at the sole decision of the government agency utilizing this application. Agencies remain solely responsible for complying with their legal obligations under applicable laws and regulations, including (but not limited to) data protection and employment laws and regulations, and should modify any language within the templates provided to meet the agency’s specific requirements.