Safe Workplace for mobile

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  • Updated August 6, 2025
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    Summary of Safe Workplace for mobile

    Safe Workplace for mobile is a ServiceNow® application designed to help organizations manage essential steps for safely returning to the workplace using the Now Mobile app. It provides a user-friendly mobile interface that enables employees and managers to complete health screenings, surveys, make workplace visits and reservations, request personal protective equipment (PPE), and more. This solution supports health and safety protocols anywhere, enhancing workplace readiness and compliance.

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    Key Features

    • Health Status Reporting: Users can report and view their health status through the Now Mobile app. Managers can monitor the health of their direct reports and reassign critical tasks as needed.
    • Access to Related Applications: Safe Workplace for mobile integrates with applications from the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace suites, enabling comprehensive workplace safety management including contact tracing, vaccination status reporting, and PPE inventory management.
    • Mobile Sections: The app supports a wide range of safety practices such as health screening, PPE assignment and requests, visitor screening, COVID-19 testing, travel permissions, vaccination status reporting, and daily contact logging.
    • Manager Tools: Managers can view team health dashboards, open tasks, and reassign tasks to ensure workplace readiness before employees arrive.
    • Federal Customer Support: Federal customers using IL4 or FedRAMP environments can install Safe Workplace suite applications on nonproduction instances without special requests, with licenses required for production use.

    Practical Use and Installation

    To use Safe Workplace for mobile, customers must install the Now Mobile app along with the Safe Workplace for mobile app. The installation process differs for commercial, federal hosted, and on-premise environments, with guidance provided for each. Customers should follow the recommended installation order for the suite applications to ensure proper functionality.

    Important Considerations

    • Organizations are responsible for configuring the applications to comply with applicable laws and regulations, including data protection and employment laws.
    • ServiceNow does not provide legal advice and does not guarantee compliance with any law or regulation through the use of this application.
    • Government agencies using the application must confirm usage permissions with their Ethics Office and remain responsible for compliance with relevant laws and regulations.

    What Customers Can Expect

    By implementing Safe Workplace for mobile, organizations can facilitate a seamless, mobile-first approach to workplace health and safety management. Users can conveniently manage health screenings, monitor readiness, and support contact tracing efforts. Managers gain oversight and control to maintain workplace safety standards and reassign tasks efficiently. The app helps organizations support a safe return to physical workplaces while maintaining compliance and operational readiness.

    Manage the essential steps for return to workplace from anywhere using the Safe Workplace for mobile app.

    The ServiceNow® Safe Workplace mobile experience enables organizations to manage the essential steps for returning users to the workplace from anywhere with the Now Mobile app. With an intuitive mobile design and user-friendly interface, organizations can deliver a seamless return to workplace experience, enabling users to complete health screenings and surveys, set up visits, make reservations, request PPE, and more to support their health and safety.

    Table 1. Application Views

    Access other applications from Safe Workplace for mobile

    From the Safe Workplace for mobile app, users can access applications from the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace product suites.
    Note:
    The Emergency Response Management for Now® Mobile app was renamed to Safe Workplace for mobile.
    Table 2. Emergency and Safe Workplace Applications
    Emergency Response Management applications Safe Workplace applications
    • Emergency Outreach
    • Emergency Self Report
    • Emergency Exposure Management
    • Employee Readiness Surveys
    • Employee Health Screening
    • Workplace Core
    • Workplace PPE Inventory Management
    • Safe Workplace Dashboard
    • Contact Tracing
    • Health and Safety Testing
    • Employee Readiness Core
    • Enterprise Employee Experience Pack
    • Employee Travel Safety
    • Vaccination Status

    Safe Workplace for mobile features

    Table 3. Safe Workplace (Mobile) Reporting and Notification Features
    Receive and respond to outreach notifications

    Receive important notifications generated in the Emergency Outreach application on your mobile device. You can also self-report your health status through these notifications.

    For more information about Emergency Outreach, see Emergency Outreach.

    For information on how to report your health status through push notifications, see Report your health status.
    Report your health status on the service response dashboard
    Under My Current Health Status, click your name to report your health status. For more information, see Report your health status in Now Mobile.
    View the status of your direct reports
    As a manager, you can view My Team's Health in the My Team section to see an overview of the health of your direct reports. For more information, see Manage the status of your direct reports in Now Mobile.
    Reassign critical tasks to your working employees
    As a manager, you can tap My Direct Reports Open Tasks in the My Team section to see the work assigned to your direct reports. From this list, you can reassign tasks, as needed, to your working direct reports. For more information, see Reassign tasks to your team members in Now Mobile.

    Mobile sections

    If you've subscribed to the Safe Workplace suite, you see the Mobile sections available for Mobile experience for Emergency Response Management. Each section has multiple applications. To see all applications under a topic, scroll left.

    Table 4. Sections related to mobile application topics and features
    Follow these safety practices Health screening Manage PPE inventory
    Health surveys

    For more information, see Employee Readiness Surveys.

    Screen employee

    For more information, see Conduct a health screen for entry.

    Assign consumable

    For more information, see Assign PPE to employees.

    Verify my health

    For more information, see Verify your health status and compliance.

    Screen visitor

    For more information, see Screen a visitor for entry to the workplace.

    Assign hardware

    For more information, see Assign PPE to employees.

    Request PPE

    For more information, see Request PPE.

    Scan for entry

    For more information, see Collecting user badge data.

    Add consumable

    For more information, see Add PPE stock.

    Daily contact log

    For more information, see Tracking employee contacts using daily logs.

    Employee status

    For more information, see View your health and safety status.

    Add hardware

    For more information, see Add PPE stock.

    Privacy Consent

    For more information, see User privacy consent for Contact Tracing.

    Add model

    For more information, see Create models for PPE items.

    Set up a visit

    For more information, see Invite a visitor to the workplace.

    COVID-19 Testing

    For more information, see Request a COVID-19 diagnostic test.

    Request travel permission

    For more information, see Request permission to travel.

    Report Vaccination

    For more information, see Report vaccination status to your organization.

    Request Vaccine Exemption

    For more information, see Request a vaccine exemption.

    Vaccine Exemption Requests

    For more information, see Request a vaccine exemption.

    Table 5. Sections related to mobile health checks
    My current health status Prepare for arrival My team
    For more information, see View your health status in Now Mobile. My readiness checklist

    Provides a checklist of tasks to complete prior to arriving at the work location.

    My team's health

    Shows a list of your direct reports and their health status.

    My office entry code

    Provides a QR code that enables you to check into a work location.

    My direct reports open tasks

    Shows all open tasks assigned to your direct reports that must be completed prior to arriving at a work location.

    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.

    Table 6. 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.

    If you've subscribed to the Safe Workplace suite and you already have some of the apps installed, refer to the following order of installation for the remaining apps.
    • Emergency Outreach (sn_imt_checkin)
    • Employee Health Screening (sn_imt_monitoring)
    • Workplace PPE Inventory Management (sn_imt_ppe)
    • Employee Readiness Surveys (sn_imt_readiness)
    • COVID-19 Global Health Data Set (sn_imt_c19datafeed)
    • Contact Tracing (sn_imt_tracing)
    • Emergency Self Report (sn_imt_quarantine)
    • Workplace Core (sn_wsd_core)
    • Safe Workplace Dashboard (sn_imt_dashboard)
    • Emergency Response Management for Now Mobile (sn_imt_mobile)
    • Employee Travel Safety (sn_imt_travel)
    • Health and Safety Testing (sn_imt_health_test)
    • Vaccination Status (sn_imt_vaccine)