Employee Readiness Core
Use the ServiceNow® Employee Readiness Core application to track employee data across all Safe Workplace suite and ServiceNow® Emergency Response Management applications.
The Employee Readiness Core app adds the Employee Health and Safety Status feature.
[Omitted image "covid.EmployeeHealthandSafetyStatus.png"] Alt text: Return employees to the workplace
The Employee Readiness Core app also provides shared functionality and data structures for Employee Readiness apps, such as ServiceNow® Employee Readiness Surveys, ServiceNow® Employee Health Screening , and ServiceNow® Contact Tracing.
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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.
Use with other Safe Workplace suite applications
Employee Readiness Core is part of a suite of ServiceNow® Safe Workplace suite applications. Use it with these other applications to help your organization prepare its workforce and workplaces to resume operations after emergencies and pandemics like COVID-19.
- 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 Workplace Core application, prepare for the return of users by configuring and maintaining clean and socially distanced workspaces for them to use.
- You can manage the inventory of safety equipment for your workforce with the Workplace Personal Protective Equipment Inventory Management application.
- With the Contact Tracing application, evaluate the readiness of your users to return to the workplace by using data such as badge scans, Wi-Fi access logs, and daily contact logs to help identify potential user interactions.
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.
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Type |
Instructions |
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Commercial on-premise |
Visit the ServiceNow® Store to download and install the application. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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.
Additional resources
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Learn more about what's new and changed, see the HR Service Delivery release notes.
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Log in to your ServiceNow® account and find additional information about implementing and deploying features at Employee Service Management.
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Access real-time courses, self-paced training, and career resources at ServiceNow University
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Find useful resources related to your role and explore best practices at the Customer Success Center.
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Connect with other Customer Service Management users at Now Community.
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Install Employee Readiness Core
You can install Employee Readiness Core if you have the admin role. -
Employee Health and Safety Status
Use the Employee Health and Safety Status feature to track when people are ready to return to the workplace. -
My Safe Workplace
Use the ServiceNow® My Safe Workplace page to view all of your information and resources for returning to the workplace. Manage your requirement status for workplace entry, update your health status, track workspace reservations, and create requests for PPE or testing. -
Maintaining privacy consent in Employee Readiness Core
The Employee Readiness Core application enables your organization to maintain the data privacy of all employees and obtain consent to various privacy policies in Safe Workplace suite applications. -
Employee Readiness Core Approval Portal
The Employee Readiness Core Approval Portal enables you to approve or deny submitted COVID-19 vaccine doses, vaccine exemptions, and health tests.
Parent Topic:Safe Workplace
---
title: Employee Readiness Core
description: Use the ServiceNow Employee Readiness Core application to track employee data across all Safe Workplace suite and ServiceNow Emergency Response Management applications.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/employee-readiness-core/employee-readiness-core.html
release: australia
product: Employee Readiness Core
classification: employee-readiness-core
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 6
breadcrumb: [Safe Workplace, Health and Safety, Employee Service Management]
---
# Employee Readiness Core
Use the ServiceNow® Employee Readiness Core application to track employee data across all Safe Workplace suite and ServiceNow® Emergency Response Management applications.
The Employee Readiness Core app adds the Employee Health and Safety Status feature.
\[Omitted image "covid.EmployeeHealthandSafetyStatus.png"\] Alt text: Return employees to the workplace
The Employee Readiness Core app also provides shared functionality and data structures for Employee Readiness apps, such as ServiceNow® Employee Readiness Surveys, ServiceNow® Employee Health Screening , and ServiceNow® Contact Tracing.
- **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](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/platform-user-interface/guided-setup.md).
## Use with other Safe Workplace suite applications
Employee Readiness Core is part of a suite of ServiceNow® Safe Workplace suite applications. Use it with these other applications to help your organization prepare its workforce and workplaces to resume operations after emergencies and pandemics like COVID-19.
- With the [Employee Readiness Surveys](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/safe-workplace/employee-readiness-surveys.md) 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](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/safe-workplace/employee-health-screening.md) application to screen users and ensure compliance with your entry requirements, such as a temperature check and PPE.
- With the [Workplace Core](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/workplace-core/workplace-service-delivery-overview.md) application, prepare for the return of users by configuring and maintaining clean and socially distanced workspaces for them to use.
- You can manage the inventory of safety equipment for your workforce with the [Workplace Personal Protective Equipment Inventory Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/safe-workplace/ppe-inventory-management.md) application.
- With the [Contact Tracing](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/contact-tracing/contact-tracing.md) application, evaluate the readiness of your users to return to the workplace by using data such as badge scans, Wi-Fi access logs, and daily contact logs to help identify potential user interactions.
All Safe Workplace suite applications are available in the [ServiceNow Store](https://store.servicenow.com/sn_appstore_store.do#!/store/home).
## 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 id="table_kxr_yz3_blb"><thead><tr><th>
Type
</th><th>
Instructions
</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>
Commercial on-premise
</td><td>
Visit the ServiceNow® Store to download and install the application.
</td></tr><tr><td>
Federal hosted
</td><td>
See the [Federal downloads for the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace suite apps \[KB0030260\]](https://store.servicenow.com/$appstore.do#!/store/help?article=KB0030260) article in the Store Help Center for more information.
</td></tr><tr><td>
Federal on-premise
</td><td>
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 \[KB0030260\]](https://store.servicenow.com/$appstore.do#!/store/help?article=KB0030260) article in the Store Help Center for more information.
</td></tr><tr><td>
On-premise
</td><td>
See the [Commercial downloads for the Emergency Response Management and Safe Workplace suite apps \[KB0030258\]](https://store.servicenow.com/$appstore.do#!/store/help?article=KB0030258) article in the Store Help Center for more information.
</td></tr></tbody>
</table>## 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.
## Additional resources
- Learn more about what's new and changed, see the [HR Service Delivery release notes](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/release-notes/hr-service-delivery-landing.md).
- Log in to your ServiceNow® account and find additional information about implementing and deploying features at [Employee Service Management](https://mynow.servicenow.com/now/best-practices/collections/employee-service-management-best-practices).
- Access real-time courses, self-paced training, and career resources at [ServiceNow University](https://learning.servicenow.com/lxp/en/pages/servicenow)
- Find useful resources related to your role and explore best practices at the [Customer Success Center](https://www.servicenow.com/success.html).
- Connect with other Customer Service Management users at [Now Community](https://www.servicenow.com/community/).
- **[Install Employee Readiness Core](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-readiness-core/install-employee-readiness-core.md)**
You can install Employee Readiness Core if you have the admin role.
- **[Employee Health and Safety Status](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-readiness-core/employee-health-safety-status.md)**
Use the Employee Health and Safety Status feature to track when people are ready to return to the workplace.
- **[My Safe Workplace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-readiness-core/safe-workplace-today.md)**
Use the ServiceNow® My Safe Workplace page to view all of your information and resources for returning to the workplace. Manage your requirement status for workplace entry, update your health status, track workspace reservations, and create requests for PPE or testing.
- **[Maintaining privacy consent in Employee Readiness Core](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-readiness-core/employee-readiness-core-privacy-consent.md)**
The Employee Readiness Core application enables your organization to maintain the data privacy of all employees and obtain consent to various privacy policies in Safe Workplace suite applications.
- **[Employee Readiness Core Approval Portal](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/employee-readiness-core/employee-readiness-core-approval-portal.md)**
The Employee Readiness Core Approval Portal enables you to approve or deny submitted COVID-19 vaccine doses, vaccine exemptions, and health tests.
**Parent Topic:**[Safe Workplace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/safe-workplace/safe-workplace.md)
| title | Employee Readiness Core |
| description | Use the ServiceNow Employee Readiness Core application to track employee data across all Safe Workplace suite and ServiceNow Emergency Response Management applications. |
| locale | en-US |
| canonical_url | https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/employee-readiness-core/employee-readiness-core.html |
| release | australia |
| product | Employee Readiness Core |
| classification | employee-readiness-core |
| topic_type | concept |
| last_updated | 2026-09-10 |
| reading_time_minutes | 6 |
| breadcrumb | Safe WorkplaceHealth and SafetyEmployee Service Management |