Activate a ServiceNow Otto for Health and Safety skill

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title: Activate a ServiceNow Otto for Health and Safety skill
description: Activate a ServiceNow Otto for Health and Safety skill to enable the safety team to use the generative AI skills from Health and Safety Workspace and the Core UI.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/now-assist-for-health-and-safety/now-assist-hs-activate-skill.html
release: australia
product: Now Assist for Health and Safety
classification: now-assist-for-health-and-safety
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 2
breadcrumb: [Configure, ServiceNow Otto for Health and Safety, Health and Safety, Employee Service Management]
---

# Activate a ServiceNow Otto for Health and Safety skill

Activate a ServiceNow Otto for Health and Safety skill to enable the safety team to use the generative AI skills from Health and Safety Workspace and the Core UI.

## Before you begin

[Install ServiceNow Otto for Health and Safety](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/now-assist-for-health-and-safety/now-assist-hs-install.md).

Role required: admin

## About this task

The following table lists the skill that you can access from the AI Admin Hub console.

|Health and Safety feature|Skill|
|-------------------------|-----|
|AI skills for Health and Safety|Health and Safety incident summarization|

The Health and Safety incident summarization skill is available in the base system with the required configurations.

**Note:**

Now LLM Service is currently the only provider for this application's skills.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **AI Admin Hub** > **Skills** to access the **AI Skills** tab of the AI Admin Hub console.

2.  From the workflow list, select **Employee** and then select **Health and Safety**.

3.  On the tile for your skill, select **Activate skill**.

4.  In the General details section, review the details and select **Save and continue**.

5.  In the Choose Input section, review inputs for the selected skill.

    For information about the inputs for the skill, see [Skill inputs for ServiceNow Otto for Health and Safety](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/now-assist-for-health-and-safety/now-assist-hs-skill-inputs.md).\[Omitted image "na-hs-skill-inputs.png"\] Alt text: Choose input data screen for skills.

6.  Select **Save and continue** to go to the next step.

7.  In the Select display section, review the interfaces where the skill appears.

    -   **In-product**: When selected, the Now Assist skills are displayed on workspaces.

        For the skills that appear in-product, select the down arrow to identify the roles that can use the skill.

    -   **ServiceNow Otto panel**: When selected, AI skills are available in the ServiceNow Otto panel. If you don't see this option, you must activate the ServiceNow Otto panel. For more information, see [Activate the ServiceNow Otto panel standard chat](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/intelligent-experiences/activate-now-assist-panel.md).

        For the skills that appear in the panel, select the down arrow to identify the roles that can use the skill.

8.  Select **Save and continue**.

9.  In the Review and activate section, review your choices and select **Activate** to complete the configuration.

    The skill is configured.

10. In the Active skills section of the Health and Safety page, verify that the skill is active from the Status column.

    \[Omitted image "na-hs-active-skill.png"\] Alt text: Active skills section displaying the active status for the Health and Safety incident summarization skill.


**Parent Topic:**[Configuring ServiceNow Otto for Health and Safety](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/now-assist-for-health-and-safety/now-assist-hs-configuring.md)