How to access Hazard Manager services

How to register to access Hazard Manager

Who can access Hazard Manager services?

Registering for Hazard Manager provides access to services designed around the needs of Category 1 and Category 2 responders (as defined in the Civil Contingencies Act 2004). Other organisations such as commercial, public or voluntary ones can also request access but will be going through a manual approval process which helps us review each organisation on a case by case basis and approve or reject depending on the needs to access Hazard Manager services for response, planning and resilience activities.

How do I get access to Hazard Manager services?

Select Create a Met Office account option and enter your organisational email address (i.e. nhs.net or .gov.uk) into the box to receive a verification code.

Check your email, once you have received the code, enter it in the box provided to complete the sign up with some additional details in order to set up your account.

If your organisation is not recognised, you will be asked to provide a ‘Reason for requesting access’. We will be using this reasoning to decide whether access to Hazard Manager can be granted and what services you will be able to access, if granted.

Your approval request might take up to 5 working days to be assessed by a Met Office staff member. You will receive an approved or rejected email once the request has been reviewed.

Please note: any registrations from personal email domains (i.e. gmail.com or hotmail.com) will be rejected.

How to access Hazard Manager services once registered and approved

You can log in by going to hazardmanager.metoffice.gov.uk and entering the organisational email address you have used to register with.

There is no limit to amount of devices you can log on with, and you can use your organisational email to sign in on both your work and personal devices.

Hazard Manager conditions of use

Hazard Manager is provided by the Met Office as a part of our commitment to the Public Weather Service. This requirement is defined in the Civil Contingencies Act 2004.

Responders are classified into two categories:

Category 1 responders are those organisations at the core of emergency response (e.g. emergency services, local authorities).
Category 2 responders are 'co-operating bodies' who, while less likely to be involved in the heart of planning work, will be heavily involved in incidents that affect their sector (e.g. Health and Safety Executive, transport and utility companies).

Hazard Manager is designed for use by Category 1 and Category 2 responders and provides a one-stop information source for the emergency response community, allowing you to access your services in one location, using a single username and password.

Registered content and imagery contained within Hazard Manager should not be reproduced or replicated on social media sites or any other device anywhere in the world.

The Met Office reminds registered users that Hazard Manager is a dynamic service and is not designed to be used as a self-briefing tool. Registered users are required to ensure that the information contained is only used in conjunction with the latest Met Office advice.

Data Protection

The Met Office stores any personal details in line with the current Data Protection Act.

See our Privacy Policy

See our Licence to Reproduce Registered Content

Hazard Manager technical specifications

Hazard Manager is designed to run on all commonly used modern browsers and hardware. Whilst the Met Office has tested this application extensively, it is not possible to test on all combinations of hardware and software and we must therefore rely on the user to ensure that any issues with the application are not as a result of local hardware, software or communication issues.

The Met Office will continue to develop Hazard Manager, adding new features and ensuring that the application remains current and aligned to the following browser support standards.

The Met Office Hazard Manager web application has been developed to comply with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) AA Accessibility standards. An Accessibility Statement is available to view within the application.

We have tested our web application using the browsers given in the list below.

Support definitions

All content MUST be readable and usable, and all functionality MUST work
Variations to presentation of content MUST be minimised
Where CSS layout is used, the CSS MUST be rendered by supported web browsers, so that a fully-styled version of the page is presented to the user

Supported browsers

Chrome (latest two versions) on Android
Safari (latest two versions) on iOS
Chrome (latest two versions) on Windows 10
Firefox (latest two versions) on Windows 10
Safari (latest two versions) on macOS

Note: Hazard Manager may work on other browsers, but these are not officially supported. We do not support Beta versions of any web browser.