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Crew (B2B)2 min readupdated 2026-05-07

Setting up a crew job site

Setting up a crew job site

Once your organization is on the Crew OSHA tier, every job site you register gets translated NWS alerts dispatched into its WhatsApp group when severe weather enters its 5-km geofence.

Before you start

You'll need:

  • A WhatsApp group for the site, with a numeric group ID copied from WhatsApp Business (long-press the group → Group info → Group link → copy ID).
  • The site's latitude and longitude (Google Maps pin → right-click → first row of the dropdown is the lat/lon pair).
  • The foreman's phone number in E.164 format (e.g. +1 555 555 0100).
  • The foreman's preferred language (en, es, or zh).

Step by step

  1. Sign in at weathertranslate.com/login with the magic-link email.
  2. Open the Dashboard → Crew page.
  3. Click Add job site.
  4. Drop the pin on the map (or paste the lat/lon directly).
  5. Paste the WhatsApp group ID, foreman name, foreman phone, and preferred language.
  6. Save. The site is active the moment it's saved — alerts begin dispatching the next time severe weather enters its geofence.

How alerts actually arrive

When the NWS issues a Severe Thunderstorm Warning, Tornado Warning, or Tornado Emergency that overlaps your job site's 5-km radius:

  1. Our backend translates the bulletin into the foreman's preferred language.
  2. The translated alert is sent into the configured WhatsApp group.
  3. An entry is written to your organization's OSHA compliance log — visible on the Crew dashboard, exportable as CSV for any post-incident review.

Common questions

Can a single org have multiple sites? Yes. The $99/mo Crew tier covers unlimited sites under one organization.

What if my foreman doesn't speak English? Set preferred_language to es or zh. The alert text gets translated server-side before it leaves our system.

Does this replace NWS Weather Radio? No — keep your radio. We are an additional source for severe weather information, not a replacement for NWS, FEMA, EAS, or 911.