Safe Workplace

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    Summary of Safe Workplace

    ServiceNow® Safe Workplace applications assist organizations in reopening workplaces safely after emergencies or pandemics like COVID-19. These applications support workforce and workplace readiness, health and safety compliance, and ongoing monitoring to protect employee health while facilitating a smooth return to onsite work environments.

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    Workforce Readiness

    • Employee Readiness Surveys: Collect employee feedback on readiness to return, health status, and concerns to guide support strategies.
    • Employee Health Screening: Screen employees before entry with customizable criteria such as temperature checks and PPE compliance, with reporting dashboards for site-level trends and user return tracking.
    • Employee Readiness Core: Centralizes employee data across Safe Workplace and Emergency Response Management applications.
    • Employee Travel Safety: Supports safe travel by verifying destination safety, monitoring employee health, and maintaining contact logs during travel.
    • Vaccination Status: Enables HR to track user vaccination records to meet workplace health requirements and assess overall readiness.

    Workplace Readiness

    • Workplace Core: Configure sanitized, socially distanced workspaces with shift management, workspace reservations, and sanitation scheduling. Managers gain real-time visibility of workspace usage and cleaning statuses.
    • Workplace PPE Inventory Management: Manage and monitor PPE stock levels by facility, track distribution to employees, and maintain accurate, up-to-date inventory data.
    • Contact Tracing: Identify potentially exposed users onsite via data inputs like badge scans and Wi-Fi logs to reduce disease transmission risks.
    • Health and Safety Testing: Streamlines health testing workflows to limit workplace disease spread.

    Management and Integration

    • Safe Workplace Dashboard: Provides leadership in HR, Workplace Services, and Health & Safety with a consolidated operational view to assess site readiness and user health status.
    • Enterprise Employee Experience Pack: Offers preconfigured process flows and sample content for rapid enterprise-wide implementation across departments.
    • Integration Capabilities: Allows Safe Workplace data to integrate with third-party systems, such as linking health screening results with badge readers to enforce entry protocols.
    • Safe Workplace Mobile: Enables management of return-to-workplace processes remotely through a mobile app.
    • Domain Separation: Supports Basic-level domain separation for Safe Workplace applications, except for the Safe Workplace Dashboard.

    Implementation Guidance and Legal Considerations

    The Safe Workplace guided setup assists with configuration of the suite and Emergency Response Management applications in ServiceNow instances. Organizations are responsible for ensuring legal compliance, including data protection and employment laws, and for customizing application templates accordingly. Government agencies receive special terms regarding usage rights and must verify ethical compliance independently.

    By leveraging these applications, ServiceNow customers can automate workflows for employee readiness assessment, workplace preparation, health and safety compliance, and inventory management, enabling safer and more efficient returns to physical work environments.

    ServiceNow® Safe Workplace applications help you reopen your workplaces and support the health and safety of your employees after emergencies and pandemics like COVID-19.

    Workforce readiness

    Help employees return to the workplace when they're healthy and ready with the following Safe Workplace applications.
    Employee Readiness Surveys
    Gauge workforce readiness for returning to the workplace

    With the ServiceNow® Employee Readiness Surveys application, send surveys to help gauge whether users are ready to return to the workplace. Ask questions to get insights into how users feel about returning to work, their current health status, and underlying concerns such as personal health, family obligations, and anxiety about workplace safety. Based on responses, you can measure and determine the steps needed to help users feel safe and secure upon their return.

    Employee Health Screening
    Screen employees for a safer return to the workplace

    The ServiceNow® Employee Health Screening application enables organizations to screen users before entering the workplace to ensure compliance with the organization's entry requirements, such as a temperature check and personal protective equipment (PPE). Based on their own criteria, organizations can determine whether it’s safe for the user to enter the workplace. Organizations can use a reporting dashboard  to view trends by sites and record the return of users into  their  facilities.

    Workplace readiness

    Prepare your workplace for the return of employees with the following Safe Workplace applications.
    Workplace Core
    Manage workspace distancing, shifts, and cleaning

    Using the ServiceNow® Workplace Core application, quickly configure sanitized and socially distanced workspaces for the return of users. With department leaders, workplace service managers can reserve available workspaces for users in shifts. Workspaces can be scheduled for disinfection before and after these shifts. Through reports and dashboards, workplace managers can view how many of the available workspaces have been reserved. Workplace managers also have a real-time view of all cleaning task statuses, including a full audit trail history.

    Workplace Personal Protective Equipment Inventory Management
    Manage the inventory of personal protective equipment

    The ServiceNow® Workplace Personal Protective Equipment Inventory Management application helps you manage and monitor workplace needs for safety equipment provided to your workforce. A dashboard provides a comprehensive view of inventory by each facility, an aggregate scope of the entire workplace, and historical data on how equipment levels have changed over time. You can update current inventory levels daily for accurate and real-time inventory management.

    Use the Safe Workplace applications together to automate workflows for determining your employees' readiness and needs for returning to work, preparing sanitized and socially distanced workspaces, and managing the inventory of safety equipment for your workforce.
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    Safe Workplace apps.
    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.