Emergency Self Report

  • Release version: Xanadu
  • Updated August 1, 2024
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    Summary of Emergency Self Report

    The Emergency Self Report application in ServiceNow provides a digital workflow for users to report their health status during a crisis and facilitates safe return-to-work processes. It replaces manual reporting methods such as email or phone by capturing and consolidating user data automatically for analysis and response. The app supports different views tailored to users, managers, and response teams to streamline communication and decision-making during emergencies.

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    Key Features

    • User Reporting: Users can easily report their health status and update managers and response teams about their readiness to return to work via a menu-driven interface.
    • Manager Monitoring: Managers can view summaries and detailed reports of their team’s health status, reassign work if necessary, and submit reports on behalf of users without application access.
    • Response Team Dashboard: Response teams access an overview dashboard summarizing all self-reported data, with flexible sorting and filtering options for efficient analysis and action.
    • HR Task Management: Self-reports generate HR tasks that can be reviewed and managed by response teams, allowing organizations to integrate these tasks into their emergency response strategies as needed.
    • Integration with Emergency Response Suite: Works alongside other ServiceNow Emergency Response Management applications like Contact Tracing, Emergency Exposure Management, and Emergency Outreach to enhance comprehensive crisis management.
    • Guided Setup: The Safe Workplace guided setup assists with configuring Emergency Self Report and related Safe Workplace applications, ensuring a streamlined implementation.
    • Bulk Data Import: Crisis task administrators can upload spreadsheets to create crisis tasks in bulk, facilitating large-scale health status tracking.
    • Domain Separation: Supports use cases for service providers requiring domain separation to maintain data segregation and compliance.

    Key Outcomes

    • Enables timely and accurate health status reporting by users during emergencies, improving organizational awareness.
    • Supports managers in monitoring team health and managing work assignments effectively during crises.
    • Provides response teams with comprehensive visibility and data tools to coordinate emergency responses efficiently.
    • Facilitates compliance and governance by allowing organizations to tailor HR task management and legal language to meet specific regulatory requirements.
    • Available for commercial, federal, and on-premise ServiceNow environments with clear installation guidance and support for regulatory compliance.

    Important Considerations

    • Organizations are responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable laws and customizing the application’s templates and workflows accordingly.
    • Government agencies should verify ethical and legal permissions for application use and understand that ServiceNow provides the application free of charge without future payment obligations.

    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.