Health And Safety Risk Management

Review the identified hazards in a risk analysis and choose their control measures to assess how they impact and mitigate the risk.

Learn to add actions to the survey responses on a safety inspection or audit survey to access safety issues discovered during a safety walk.

Several types of components are installed with installation of the Health and Safety Risk Management application, including tables, user roles, and scheduled jobs. The application also installs related store applications if they aren’t already installed.

The industrial hygienist can use the action schedule form for an action to be created when there's an active exposure.

Add an action to address an identified risk or implement control measures necessary to improve workplace safety. You can add multiple actions for a hazard or control measure.

Add an action for each finding to address any issues or implement measures necessary to improve workplace safety. You can add multiple actions for an inspection or audit finding.

Record a finding for a review item during an audit and perform a root cause analysis (RCA) for it.

Record a finding based on the survey results for a safety inspection and perform a root cause analysis (RCA) for it.

Create a Health and Safety action to a requested permit-to-work. This helps to address the root cause of any reported safety occurrence.

Add a measurement recorded for the exposure type when performing an exposure assessment.

Add people involved to record all participants in a safety audit — their roles, responsibilities, and the objectives and actions assigned to them.

Review the permit and approve or reject it through Employee Center.

Multiple safety agents can be assigned to the same inspection record to enable a collaborative effort. While only one agent can be assigned at a time to a survey related to an inspection record, it allows clear ownership and maintains overall team coordination. This collaboration can be achieved from both Employee center and Health and Safety Workspace.

When an audit's item for review is complete, the safety auditor can use the Findings form to log findings gathered from the review or survey responses.

The safety audit manager can use the audit objectives form to define the objectives and scope of a safety audit.

The safety audit manager can use the audit schedule form to set up a recurring workplace safety audit.

The safety audit manager can use the audit questionnaire form to assign a smart assessment or survey to be conducted as part of a safety audit.

Field description to add a new choice to create a new permit type.

Complete a safety inspection or audit survey assigned to you through the Employee Center.

Conduct a safety risk assessment to identify and manage potential hazards and risks, and to ensure the safety of your employees and the public.

Create a permit checklist and link it to the permit type of a permit-to-work request.

Configure permit type, permit checklist, checklist type, and edit a permit form.

Create a permit type to categorize risk and safety requirements for different types of work.

You can configure the property that enables you to create actions for the smart assessment questionnaire. This action creation can be enabled for one or more questions as needed.

Edit existing questions on a permit to work form or add new questions.

Configure a safety risk matrix to define levels of risk using likelihood vs severity and to define risk tolerances.​ You can review and modify the risk matrixes available with the application or add new ones for your organization.

Review surveys available with the Health and Safety Risk Management application. Modify the survey, or create one or more surveys to use for different workplaces or to check other areas of concern.

You can create smart assessment templates and add instructions, questions, and reference information by using the template designer in the Smart Assessment Engine application.

For an exposure type, create an exposure assessment for a site location. You can also generate exposure assessments for multiple locations in your organization at once for an exposure type.

Create a safety audit for a process or regulation with formalized assessment criteria, and record the information collected at each stage—before, during, and after the audit.

Create a safety inspection to manage your workplace inspection of a particular activity, process, or an area. Review the questionnaire responses and add findings, root cause analyses (RCA), and actions for the inspection.

The permit-to-work request is submitted by the worker who will be carrying out a job with significant risk.

Create or modify a control measure category to group your safety controls into logical categories.

Create or modify a risk category to group your workplace hazards into logical categories.

Define an action schedule for the people affected by an exposure. The action schedule creates an action for each affected person when there's an active exposure for an exposure assessment.

Define a category and measurement unit for an exposure type. If needed, you can also associate a subcategory with an exposure type category.

Define effective control measures to eliminate or minimize the risks associated with each workplace hazard to help prevent workplace accidents and injuries. Maintain a list of all the controls in place in your organization for every type of job and the associated risks.

Identify and define a potential workplace exposure type present in a location in your organization. Maintain a list of all exposures types across your organization.

Identify and define potential workplace hazards related to a job or task type. Maintain a list of all hazards for all job types in your organization.

Define jobs and their steps (if any), in the job register to predefine hazards and controls for each job type in your organization.

Define an objective to add detailed goal and scope of the safety audit. You can create as many objectives as the audit requires.

Learn more about Health and Safety Risk Management and review the benefits it can provide for different users in your organization.

Risk assessment managers can use the hazard assessment form to review a hazard and choose their control measures and assess their risk levels.

Import scope to copy the audit details, people involved, and objectives (including criteria and items for review) from an existing audit.

Safety inspection manager can use the inspection schedule form to set up a recurring workplace safety inspection.

A permit coordinator can issue a permit after the permit approver approves a request.

Job safety analysis (JSA) is a systematic process for identifying potential hazards at a worker’s point-of-work. The objective is to increase risk awareness and implement efficient controls to help prevent workplace accidents and injuries.​

Manage your safety registers to log and keep track of the hazardous materials used in your organization, along with Safety Data Sheets (SDSs).

The Risk Management tab of the Health and Safety dashboard provides a comprehensive and interactive view for monitoring and analyzing safety risk metrics. By providing real-time insights into inspections, job safety analyses (JSAs), and various hazard and risk categories, it enables you to proactively identify trends, respond swiftly to emerging issues, and continuously enhance workplace safety across all organizational levels.

Perform an exposure assessment for an exposure type for each site location in your organization.

For a risk assessment, perform risk analyses of identified hazards and choose control measures to assess how they impact and mitigate the hazard.

Description of the form to request a permit to work.

The permit-to-work system streamlines the management of requests for work permits for potentially hazardous activities and provides an efficient process for issuing these permits.

Record the audit result and outcomes and compare them with previous audits to identify trends and track progress over time.

Risk assessment managers can use the risk assessment form to conduct their risk assessments.

The Risk Assessment is a process of identifying and evaluating potential hazards and risks associated with a process, system, product, or activity, and implementing measures that help prevent or mitigate those risks. The feature enables the safety of people and proactively reduce safety incident rates.

The ServiceNow Health and Safety Risk Management application provides capabilities to enable workers, line managers, and safety personnel to work safely and reduce the likelihood of injuries that risks or hazards create.

Safety team can use the risk matrixes to create and conduct risk assessments in the Health and Safety Workspace.

Domain separation is supported for Health and Safety Risk Management. Domain separation enables you to separate data, processes, and administrative tasks into logical groupings called domains. You can control several aspects of this separation, including which users can see and access data.

Using the reference topics, learn about the components, such as the roles, tables, plugins, and store applications that are installed when you install the Health and Safety Risk Management application. Reference topics also provide additional information about the lists and forms that you use to configure and use Health and Safety Risk Management.

With exposure management, safety team and industrial hygienists can manage exposures and exposure assessments so they can control any harmful effects on workers.

With Health and Safety Risk Management, safety teams can schedule, assign, and conduct workplace safety inspections and audits of particular activities, processes, or areas at their establishments.

Safety Registers help safety teams and line managers to keep track of hazardous materials like chemicals and asbestos, as well as attach Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) that employees can easily access.

Set up an inspection schedule to create a safety inspection at a future date, or to schedule recurring safety inspections, such as daily or weekly, or monthly at once.

Set up your implementation for Health and Safety Risk Management by installing the application and reviewing and configuring the components that are installed with the application.

Create an audit schedule and define the top-level audit details and the recurrence, for example, monthly or bi-monthly.

When completed, submit the safety audit, finding, or action for approval and start the approval workflow.

Submit a job safety analysis (JSA) to identify potential hazards and control measures related to these hazards at your point-of-work.

Employees can use the Submit JSA form to analyze their job safety at their point of work and create a JSA.

Learn how employees and risk teams use the Health and Safety Risk Management application to perform job safety analyses, perform risk assessments, maintain safety registers, conduct safety inspections and audits, and manage exposures for their workplace.

Field description to create a new variable record.

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Use the Overview tab in a Health and Safety audit to quickly assess the audit completion status and outstanding items.

Access and view safety register documents for chemicals and asbestos through the Employee Center.

View all submitted JSAs in Health and Safety Workspace. All JSAs that employees have submitted through the Employee Center or ServiceNow Now Mobile app are available to view in the workspace.

Create a risk analysis by importing hazards and controls from a predefined job in the job register to a risk assessment.

You can install the Health and Safety Risk Management application (sn_hs_rm) if you have the admin role. The application includes demo data and installs related ServiceNow Store applications and plugins if they are not already installed.