Building Resilience in Major Hazard Chemical Plants In recent days, we had the pleasure of taking part in the fourth coordination meeting hosted by an Italian Prefecture, focused on preparing a complex exercise and related crisis communications for a chemical plant classified as a major accident hazard site (RIR). This is a highly articulated setting involving all institutional and emergency stakeholders—including Fire Brigades and various police forces—and represents a critical testing...

“Beep beep, this is Radio Crosetto!”. The expression, reported today by journalist Tommaso Labate in the Corriere della Sera, Italy's national daily newspaper, describes an episode that goes well beyond political news. It is, in fact, an interesting — and in some ways paradigmatic — case of how one of the core principles of crisis communication is applied in practice. Guido Crosetto is Italy's Defence Minister and he has started broadcasting updates on the Persian Gulf war to key...

Last Saturday I wrote a post titled On the Brink of the Abyss. Today, with the help of ChatGPT, I am trying to explore why the war against Iran could quickly turn into a series of systemic crises that go far beyond the energy dimension alone. The analysis prepared by ChatGPT should be taken with caution. It is neither predictive nor exhaustive, but it helps us understand how, in the contemporary world, events have the potential to reverberate in non-linear ways across complex and...