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Yara Pilbara Radio Communications

Document No: 650-119-PRO-YPF-0001

Validity This document is valid from 19th June 2019

Document Custodian Senior Electrical Engineer

Document Approver Principal E&I Engineer

Yara Pilbara
Postal Address Visiting Address Telephone Registered Office:
Locked Bag 5009 Lot 564 and 3017 Village Road +61 8 9183 4100 Level 5, 182 St George Terrace
Karratha WA 6714 Burrup WA 6714 Facsimile Perth WA 6000
Australia Australia +61 8 9185 6776 Australia
Telephone: +61 8 9327 8100
Facsimile: +61 8 9327 8199
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Document Classification

This document is classified as a Type 2 document.

Changes to this document are to be approved as per the document approval matrix (refer
250-109-PRO-YPF-0001).

Document Approval

Rev Custodian Approver Date

Anil Malik Muddy Nazir

0 19-06-2019
Senior Electrical Engineer Principal E&I Engineer

Anil Malik Muddy Nazir

1
Senior Electrical Engineer Principal E&I Engineer

Revision History

Rev Date Description Author

New document issued for information and use as per

0 12-06-2019 Anil Malik
DCRF 3055

Audit

This procedure shall be reviewed / revised:

 Where a Risk Assessment identifies a need to review;
 Following a change to a radio allocation;
 Following a significant incident involving this procedure; or
 Periodically

Yara Pilbara
Postal Address Visiting Address Telephone Registered Office:
Locked Bag 5009 Lot 564 and 3017 Village Road +61 8 9183 4100 Level 5, 182 St George Terrace
Karratha WA 6714 Burrup WA 6714 Facsimile Perth WA 6000
Australia Australia +61 8 9185 6776 Australia
Telephone: +61 8 9327 8100
Facsimile: +61 8 9327 8199
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION............................................................................................................................... 2
DOCUMENT APPROVAL........................................................................................................................................ 2
REVISION HISTORY............................................................................................................................................. 2
AUDIT 2

1 PURPOSE................................................................................................................................ 4

2 SCOPE..................................................................................................................................... 4

3 DEFINITIONS AND ACRONYMS............................................................................................4

4 ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES...............................................................................................4

5 PROCEDURE.......................................................................................................................... 5
5.1 EQUIPMENT INSTALLED............................................................................................................................... 5
5.1.1 Yara Pilbara Fertilisers (YPF)...................................................................................................... 5
5.1.2 Yara Pilbara Nitrates (YPN)......................................................................................................... 5

5.2 RADIO CHANNEL ALLOCATION..................................................................................................................... 6

5.2.1 Normal Operations....................................................................................................................... 6
5.2.2 During Blackout............................................................................................................................ 8

5.3 SITE / VENDOR CONTACT DETAILS.............................................................................................................. 9

6 RECORDS............................................................................................................................... 9

7 REFERENCE DOCUMENTATION...........................................................................................9
7.1 YARA PILBARA DOCUMENTATION................................................................................................................ 9

7.2 SUPPLEMENTARY, LEGISLATIVE & REGULATORY DOCUMENTATION...............................................................9

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1 Purpose

The purpose of this document is to describe the Radio Communications facilitates

installed at both YPF and YPN, the number of channels with different frequency
used and allocation of channels during normal plant operation and during blackout.

2 Scope

This procedure is applicable to all site Radio Communication systems for both YPF
and YPN plants.

3 Definitions and Acronyms

Term Definition

E&I Electrical; and Instrumentation

GPS Global Positioning System

Rx Receiving Frequency

Tx Transmission Frequency

UHF Ultra High Frequency

YPF Yara Pilbara Fertilisers

YPN Yara Pilbara Nitrates

4 Roles & Responsibilities

Role Accountability

Maintenance, licencing and reliability of Radio

Electrical Engineer
Communications.

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5 Procedure

5.1 Equipment Installed

5.1.1 Yara Pilbara Fertilisers (YPF)

Equipment Description / Location

Four (4) installed in EI workshop and allocated to

Radio channel 1 to Channel 6. These channels are
Repeater Motorola DR3000
digital channels and have the facility for Recording
,GPS and Man down programming.

One (1) installed in EI workshop and allocated to

channel 26.
Repeater Motorola SLR 5500
One (1) ) installed in BLB jetty substation and
allocated to channel 26

One (1) installed in control room. Functional to identify

GPS monitoring screen the location of the radio(s) on channel 1 - 6 if
programmed for GPS.

Control room ,room, F&S building ,building, Security

Base station
hut and each rescue building , BLB jetty control room

UHF hand held DP4801/ 4801e/4601 equipped with

Motorola Radio
individual mouth pieces

5.1.2 Yara Pilbara Nitrates (YPN)

Equipment Description / Location

Two (2) installed in control room for radio channel 12,

13,14 and 15. These channels are digital channels
Repeater Motorola SLR 5500
and have the facility for Recording. Channels 14 and
15 are not in operation currently.

Shall be used for GPS and Man down programming.

Repeater Motorola DR3000
Currently not in service

Base station Control room

UHF hand held DP4801/ 4801e/4601 equipped with

Motorola Radio
individual mouth pieces

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5.2 Radio Channel Allocation

Yara has digital as well as analogue channels.

1. List of Digital channels: Channel 1 to 6 and Channel 12 to 15o 13.
2. List of analogue channels: Channel 7 to Channel 1111, Channel 19

5.2.1 Normal Operations

During normal operations the radio channels allocated are:

Channe User Service Rx Tx

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1 Mechanical/Maintenance Yara Mechanical Maintenance
team, Contractor employees
directly working with Yara 463.1 453.1
Mechanical team (Time slot 1) (Time slot 1)
Mechanical Maintenance
supervisors
2 All YPF Operations staff, All YPF Operations staff, Technical
Technical Services, Permit Services, Permit Officers 463.1 453.1
Officers E&I (Time slot 2) (Time slot 2)
E&I
3 Operations YPF Overflow As above 463.7 453.7
(Time slot 1) (Time slot 1)

4 Strictly for Emergency use only Medic (One radio of security),

and for contacting Medic or First SRT Coordinator
Aid / Ambulance support. Base radio in Control Room & 463.7 453.7
Security (Time slot 2) (Time slot 2)
To be used for Drills where Muster
siren is also activated
5 Safety / CSE, Lab, Warehouse HESQ Team, Warehouse, Security 464.3 454.3
and CSE entries (Time slot 1) (Time slot 1)
6 Warehouse. Warehouse 464.3 454.3
(Time slot 2) (Time slot 2)
7 Rigging / Crane operations Yara /Freo Crane / Rigging Crew
484.85 484.85
ONLY
8 Contractors/Projects YPF Contractor employed on specific
474.925 474.925
projects
9 Security Security use only, link YPF/YPN
support, escort and patrol 475.025 475.025
communication
10 Spare Spare 475.125 475.125

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Channe User Service Rx Tx

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11 Backup Emergency Channel Medic (One radio of security),
SRT Coordinator
Base radio in Control Room &
472.125 472.125
Security
To be used for Drills where Muster
siren is also activated
12 YPN Operations All YPN Operations staff, Technical 466.05 456.05
Services, Permit Officers (Time slot 1) (Time slot 1)
13 YPN Operations Overflow As above 466.05 456.05
(Time slot 2) (Time slot 2)
14 YPN Project YPN Project staff 506.0125 506.0125
(Time slot 1) (Time slot 1)
15 YPN Project YPN project staff 506.0125 506.0125
(Time slot 2) (Time slot 2)
19 Logistics TAN CB Trucking 476.875 476.875
26 Ship loading operations Ship Loading crew, Security &
EI workshop Technical staff while accessing
453.75
Pipeline corridor / DBLB
/ DBLB Jetty 463.25 465.475
(Note: 2X analog radios are
assigned for ship to shore 475.475
communication only)

In case of Blackout ,Blackout, digital channel 1-66, and channel 12-15 and Channel 263
will be available for 2 Hours (Battery backup).

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5.2.2 During Blackout

During Blackout for more than two (2) Hours the radio channel allocations are:

Channe User Service Rx Tx

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7 Rigging / Crane operations Yara/ Freo Cranes / Rigging Crew 484.85 484.85
ONLY

8 Contractors/Projects YPF Contractor employed on specific 474.925 474.925

projects

9 Security Security use only, link YPF/YPN 475.025 475.025

support, escort and patrol
communication

10 Maintenance / Mechanical Yara Mechanical Maintenance 475.125 475.125

team, Contractor employees
directly working with Yara
Mechanical team
Mechanical Maintenance
supervisors

11 Strictly for Emergency use only
and for contacting Medic or First
Aid / Ambulance support.
Operation staff
E&I
All OperationsAll Operations staff 472.125 472.125
and E&I
Medic (One radio of security),
SRT Coordinator
Base radio in Control Room &
Security
To be used for Drills where Muster
siren is also activated

19 Logistics TAN CB Trucking 476.875 476.875

26 Ship loading operations / DBLB Ship Loading crew, Security & 463.25 453.75
Technical staff while accessing
Pipeline corridor / DBLB
Note: 2 x analog radios are
assigned for ship to shore
communication only\

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5.3 Site / Vendor Contact Details

For general queries or in the event of an emergency please contact the following:

Who Contact Details

YPF
0407 868 841
Anil Malik

YPN
0430 110 777
Mehul Raval

Vendor – CSE
0488 119 309
Kenneth Matthews

Vendor – TR Hirecom
0412 863 126
Faith Watene

6 Records

Not Applicable.

7 Reference Documentation

7.1 Yara Pilbara Documentation

Document No Document Title

N/A N/A

7.2 Supplementary, Legislative & Regulatory Documentation

ACME Radio Channel Licence(s)

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