Using the Safe Workplace Dashboard
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Summary of Using the Safe Workplace Dashboard
The Safe Workplace Dashboard enables ServiceNow customers to monitor and manage their organization's readiness to reopen facilities safely. It integrates data from the Safe Workplace suite, ServiceNow® Contact Tracing, and ServiceNow® Emergency Response Management applications to provide insights on personnel readiness, PPE inventory, health monitoring, contact tracing, and facility status. This centralized view helps organizations coordinate reopening efforts while mitigating workplace transmission of infectious diseases like COVID-19.
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Key Features
- Map and Location-based Status: Visualize facility and personnel readiness by region and site, including alerts and PPE inventory linked to Workplace Core campuses or buildings.
- COVID-19 Global Health Data Set: Access global and regional COVID-19 metrics from multiple sources (ECDC, Government of Canada, OWID, USA Facts) for informed decision-making, with data viewable by date, location, and exportable for reporting.
- Reopening Management: Use the Reopening page to track phases of reopening, occupancy limits, and approved worker counts. Create and manage phase definitions with custom occupancy percentages and descriptions to tailor reopening stages.
- Check-In Audience Definition: Customize criteria for worker check-ins to monitor workplace attendance and compliance.
- Vaccination Metrics Widget: For organizations using the Vaccination Status application, review vaccination rates per location and compare against public data. This widget updates daily and requires specific user roles for access.
- Favorites and Navigation: Easily manage and access frequently monitored locations via the favorites feature.
Practical Application for ServiceNow Customers
- Preparation and Monitoring: Use the dashboard to oversee PPE stock levels, health screening results, and active contact tracing cases, ensuring readiness before reopening facilities.
- Data-Driven Decisions: Leverage integrated COVID-19 case data and vaccination statistics to guide safe reopening strategies and schedule cleaning protocols.
- Role-Based Access: Assign the paviewer role for dashboard viewing and specific roles (such as snimtdashboard.user and snimtvaccine.vaccineprofilereader) for vaccination data access to maintain security and compliance.
- Regular Updates: The dashboard data refreshes daily at designated times, ensuring current information is available for timely actions.
- Custom Configuration: Complete configuration steps, including setting up Workplace Core campuses/buildings and defining phases and check-in audiences, to enable comprehensive dashboard functionality.
Next Steps
- Verify installation and configuration of the Safe Workplace suite and related applications.
- Assign appropriate roles to users who require dashboard access.
- Create Workplace Core campuses/buildings to associate PPE and health data correctly.
- Define reopening phases tailored to your organization's policies.
- Customize check-in audiences to reflect your workforce and monitoring criteria.
- Add the Vaccination Widget to your dashboard if vaccination tracking is needed.
By using a map, you can review your organization's status regarding personnel and facility readiness to reopen.
Focus on alert information regarding user readiness, personal protective equipment (PPE) inventory levels, health monitoring results, and active contact tracing cases created for affected users. View status data, by facility, to prepare the reopening of the facility and send invitations to users to return.
COVID-19 Global Health Data Set
You can use the COVID-19 Global Health Data Set application at no extra charge. COVID-19 Global Health Data Set is installed with the Safe Workplace Dashboard. It appears as an application in the instance navigation menu, and displays global COVID-19 information on request in the Safe Workplace Dashboard.
Navigate to COVID-19 Global Health Data Set to view the collected data by date ranges, locations, state/provinces, and countries. Build reports or export the data to use for your own analysis.
| Data source | Description |
|---|---|
| European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) | COVID-19 metrics for the European Union and European Economic Area from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. For more information on this data source, see the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control website. |
| Government of Canada Public Health Infobase | COVID-19 metrics for Canada from the Canadian government. For more information on this data source, see the Government of Canada Public Health Infobase website. |
| Our World in Data (OWID) | Worldwide COVID-19 metrics from Our World in Data. For more information on this data source, see the OWID GitHub repository. |
| USA Facts | COVID-19 metrics for the United States from USA Facts. For more information on this data source, see the USA Facts website. |
Use the Safe Workplace Dashboard
Navigate to to open the dashboard in a new browser window.
Locations with alerts are listed on the left. Click the arrow on the card or the location icon to zoom in to the location and its alerts. Use the Region and Site lists at the top left to select specific regions and sites to review.
To add a favorite location, click Manage Favorites and search for the location. After you select it, the location name appears in the header (R1 S1 in the example image). Click the location to open it directly. To remove a location from favorites, click Manage Favorites again and click the (x) on the location you want to remove.
Continue drilling down to a facility to see its recent statuses. The New Confirmed COVID-19 Cases widget provides data from the COVID-19 Global Health Data Set. It shows the number of new cases and deaths for the location, and can also show the number of new cases and deaths per 100,000 people if population data for the location is available. For locations in the United States, you can filter the New Confirmed COVID-19 Cases widget to show data at the state or county level. The Populate OpenStreetMap data scheduled job retrieves county data for campuses.
- Order PPE inventory if levels are low.
- Send an outreach survey to reassess user readiness to return.
- Verify that the workplace cleaning schedule is on track to reopen safely.
- Encourage managers to have users make workspace reservations to return.
- Create cases for affected users and tasks for the follow-up interviews with potentially impacted users.
Review the Safe Workplace Dashboard Reopening page
View the Safe Workplace Dashboard Reopening page by clicking Reopeningto see visualizations of reopening data across three widgets:
- The Location Reopened Status displays what regions are open and shows how many are open by region.
- Approved Worker Count vs. Avg Daily Check-Ins provides information to help determine whether too few or too many people are being checked in for the current week.
- The Campus Status widget is a filterable view with an overview of campus locations and
metrics such as the current phase, maximum daily occupancy percent, and number of approved
workers. You can manually add or edit locations by selecting the campus or clicking
New.Note:A location cannot have more than one campus status at a time.
To populate the Safe Workplace Dashboard page, create Phase Definitions to track locations through their various phases. Otherwise, no data will display. Updates are performed daily at 23:00 instance time regardless of the number of campuses in your organization and their geographic location.
For each phase, navigate to and click New to create customized phases for your organization. You can define their phases with the following information:
- Names for the phases such as Phases 1, 2, and 3 or red, yellow, and green (Name)
- The location the phase applies to (Location)
- The maximum daily occupancy percentage (Max daily occupancy percent)
- A description of the phase
You can determine your own criteria for what constitutes a check-in. Navigate to and click New to open a new record. Administrators can use the condition builder to define the tables and fields to add to a check-in and mark the Check-In Audience as active.
Review COVID-19 vaccination metrics in the Safe Workplace Dashboard
Organizations with the Vaccination Status application can use data from the application and public data from the COVID-19 Global Health Data Set to review COVID-19 vaccination metrics across the United States and worldwide. Organizations can then compare their vaccination numbers to public numbers to gain a better understanding of their organization's vaccination efforts.
- The number of people fully vaccinated per 100
- The number of people vaccinated per 100
- The number of total vaccination doses per 100
Users with the admin role can add the Safe Workplace Dashboard Vaccination Widget to the Safe Workplace Dashboard Site View. For more information, see Add a vaccination widget to the Safe Workplace Dashboard.