Distances that the site map hides
A large refinery is a town with its own roads, and a unit-to-unit round can mean a vehicle between stops. The 4,000 mAh battery is specified to cover a shift rather than the first half of it.
Poland · Orlen
Explosion proof mobile phone for Orlen in Poland
Orlen runs the Płock refinery and petrochemical complex, the Gdańsk refinery and, through group companies such as Anwil, plants beyond the refinery fence. This page is for Orlen’s HSE, maintenance and telecoms teams, and for the contractors who work to their permits, who need an explosion proof mobile phone in Poland that suits a Zone 1 / Zone 21 round. The IS-04Z1 is designed for that duty; certification is in progress ahead of the Q4 2026 launch. The IS-04Z1 is designed around intrinsic safety rather than a flameproof enclosure.
Launching Q4 2026 · certification programme in progress
Local approvalATEXEU Directive 2014/34/EU · Dz.U. 2016 poz. 817 · in progress
AvailabilityQ4 2026via authorised distributors
The sites · Orlen
Explosion proof mobile phone for Orlen: what is classified at Płock and Gdańsk
Płock is the centre of the group: a refinery and a petrochemical complex on the Vistula, with the olefins unit feeding polymer and PVC plants downstream. Crude arrives by pipeline, which is where explosion proof phone use at PERN tank farms meets the refinery fence. Gdańsk, the former Lotos refinery, became part of Orlen with the 2022 merger of the two companies and sits on the Baltic with sea-borne crude, hydrotreating and a coking complex added under the EFRA programme. A shift at either site walks past hydrogen, light hydrocarbons, sour streams and, in the polymer and coke areas, combustible dust. Very few of those walks are short, and none of them pass a charging point.
Sites and group companies
- Płock refinery
- Crude distillation, conversion and hydrotreating inside the largest refining and petrochemical complex in the country.
- Płock petrochemicals
- Olefins and downstream polymer production sharing the fence with the refinery.
- Basell Orlen Polyolefins
- Polyethylene and polypropylene joint venture with LyondellBasell, operating at Płock.
- Gdańsk refinery
- Coastal refinery, including the coking complex commissioned in the EFRA programme.
- Orlen Południe
- Biorefining at Trzebinia and base oil and regeneration work at Jedlicze.
- Anwil, Włocławek
- Chlor-alkali, PVC and nitrogen fertiliser plants owned by the group.
What the classification looks like
- Crude and product units
- Flammable vapour, mostly gas group IIA, with hydrogen (IIC) around hydrotreaters and reformers.
- Sour and sulphur areas
- Hydrogen sulphide streams and sulphur recovery, where a toxic hazard sits beside the ignition one.
- Olefins and polymer units
- Ethylene (IIB), propylene, and polyolefin powder handling that adds Zone 21 dust.
- Coking and coke handling
- Hot coke and coke dust around the Gdańsk coking complex.
- Loading gantries and jetties
- Vapour released during filling of road, rail and marine product.
- Control rooms and workshops
- Outside the zones; where a handset is checked, charged and issued.
Built for local conditions
What Płock and Gdańsk do to a handset
Classification decides whether a device may be carried at all. These are the conditions that decide whether it is still useful by the end of a turnaround month.
IP ratingIP68
Battery4,000 mAh
Camera50 MP
OSAndroid 16
Hydrogen sets the gas group
Hydrotreating and reforming put hydrogen into the area classification. The marking target is II 2 G Ex ib IIC T4, so the gas group is not the limit; your instrument engineer checks the temperature class against the streams in each unit.
Coke, powder and Zone 21
Polyolefin powder at the polymer plants and coke dust at Gdańsk are dust risks, and Zone 21 belongs to the same certification programme as the gas marking, so one handset serves both kinds of area.
January on an open pipe rack
IP68 sealing and rugged build are aimed at wet, cold outdoor rounds. The ambient range will be fixed by the certificate and published with the datasheet.
Photography on a controlled site
Refinery operators commonly restrict photography. Android Enterprise policy lets the camera be disabled or limited by zone from your existing MDM console, rather than leaving it to individual discretion.
Use cases · Orlen
Where an Orlen team would use the IS-04Z1
Turnaround01
Unit shutdowns with contractor surges
Headcount rises several-fold during a planned shutdown. Handsets can be enrolled when a crew arrives, limited to approved applications for the permit period, and wiped and reissued at demobilisation.
Operations02
Unit rounds and defect reports
An operator records a reading, photographs a weeping flange with a coordinate attached and sends it to the maintenance planner without leaving the unit.
Marine and loading03
Gdańsk jetty and loading duty
Loading is where vapour is released on purpose. A handset that can be carried onto the gantry replaces the radio, the camera and the paper loading sheet.
Questions · Orlen
Frequently asked questions
What does the explosion protection document say about phones?
Under Polish workplace rules the employer records its classified zones and the equipment allowed in them in the explosion protection document, the dokument zabezpieczenia przed wybuchem. A new handset type is added by the employer’s competent person once the certificate and safe-use instructions are in hand. SAMS supplies those; the decision stays with Orlen.
Is one handset enough for Płock, Gdańsk and Włocławek?
The design target is the same everywhere: Zone 1 and Zone 21. What differs is each unit’s classification, so check gas group and temperature class area by area. Chlorine and ammonia at Włocławek are toxic hazards that a phone does not replace a personal gas detector for.
Who decides whether a contractor’s phone may enter an Orlen unit?
The site operator, through its permit-to-work rules. A certificate is evidence for that decision, not permission. Ask Orlen’s procurement and HSE teams what they require of portable electronic devices and whether a handset must be registered before a contractor brings it on site.
Does Orlen use this device today?
No. The IS-04Z1 is pre-launch and no certificate has been issued. SAMS has no supply agreement, pilot or relationship with Orlen; this page describes what an Orlen evaluation would look at.
Enquiry · Orlen
Ask about the IS-04Z1 for Orlen, Poland
Tell us the site, the zone and gas group, and roughly how many handsets. The SAMS team replies by email with the datasheet and the certification schedule for Poland. The IS-04Z1 is pre-launch and certification is in progress, so there is no list price yet; indicative pricing is issued in writing against a stated quantity and site.
Enquiry · Orlen
Launching Q4 2026
Evaluating the IS-04Z1 for this site?
Tell us the zone, gas group and operator. We will send the datasheet and the certification schedule for your market.