Workplace PPE Inventory Management
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Summary of Workplace PPE Inventory Management
The ServiceNow® Workplace Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Inventory Management application helps organizations safeguard the physical safety of their workforce by efficiently managing PPE inventory. It enables monitoring of PPE availability across multiple locations, fulfilling employee PPE requests, and tracking PPE assigned to employees. Employees can order PPE easily via a self-service portal accessible on both mobile and desktop devices. A comprehensive dashboard offers real-time inventory insights by facility, aggregate workplace data, and historical trends to support informed decision-making.
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Key Features
- Inventory Monitoring: Track PPE stock levels, including items in stock, on order, and assigned to employees, with daily updates for accuracy.
- Request and Fulfillment: Employees can request PPE through the Service Catalog, and administrators can fulfill these requests to ensure workplace safety.
- Direct Assignment: PPE can be assigned directly to employees without requiring a prior request, streamlining distribution.
- Self-Service Portal: Provides easy access for users to order PPE via mobile or desktop platforms.
- Dashboard: Offers a centralized view of inventory status by facility and overall workplace, including historical data trends.
- Guided Setup: Supports streamlined configuration of the Safe Workplace suite apps, including Workplace PPE Inventory Management, via a step-by-step guided setup interface.
- Integration with Safe Workplace Suite: Works alongside other Safe Workplace applications like Employee Readiness Surveys, Employee Health Screening, and Explore Workplace Core to support workforce preparedness and safe return to work.
Deployment and Licensing
- Installation: Available via the ServiceNow Store for commercial on-premise customers; federal and on-premise customers have specific installation guidance and support channels.
- Federal Customers: Safe Workplace suite apps, including PPE Inventory Management, are ready for installation on nonproduction instances in IL4 or FedRAMP environments without special requests. Licensing is required for production use. Customers must ensure compliance with applicable U.S. federal regulations.
Important Notices
- Organizational Responsibility: Organizations are solely responsible for legal compliance related to PPE management and must customize any provided language in templates to meet their requirements.
- Government Agency Use: The application is offered free of charge for government agencies with no implied future payment obligations. Agencies must verify acceptance with their Ethics Office and comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
Getting Started
- Installation: Requires admin role to install Workplace PPE Inventory Management.
- Setup Tasks: Includes creating PPE item models, adding items to the service catalog, managing PPE stock, and creating stock rules.
- Operational Use: Use the PPE Inventory Overview dashboard to monitor inventory, fulfill employee PPE requests, and assign PPE directly to employees as needed.
Use the ServiceNow® Workplace Personal Protective Equipment Inventory Management application to manage PPE inventory to help safeguard the physical safety of your workforce. Monitor the availability of PPE at different locations, fulfill employee requests for PPE, and track PPE assigned to employees.
PPE supplies can easily be ordered from the self-service portal via mobile or desktop. A dashboard provides a comprehensive view of inventory by facility, an aggregate look at the entire workplace, and historical data on how equipment levels have changed over time. Inventory levels can be updated daily for accurate, real-time inventory management.
- 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.
Use with other Safe Workplace suite applications
- 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.
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.
| 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. |
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.