Public Safety at Risk - General Public Welfare Concern
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/112#Public_Safety_at_Risk_-_General_Public_Welfare_Concern
Properties
Instance of
Active period
Throughout the described situation, from initial identification of the concern through resolution
Affected parties
Engineer A
General public
Government authorities
Public officials
Confidence
0.98
Importance
high
Subject
The public health, safety, and welfare implicated by the engineering situation described
Terminated by
Adequate corrective action by appropriate authorities consistent with engineering standards
Triggering event
Engineer A's identification of a condition posing risk to public health, safety, and welfare
Urgency level
high
Source Evidence
Source text
Professional engineers are frequently faced with engineering ethical situations that impact the public health, safety, and welfare.
Text references
Engineer A has an obligation to further report the situation to appropriate local, state, and/or federal authorities to ensure that relevant engineering standards are consistent with protecting the public health, safety, and welfare.
Professional engineers are frequently faced with engineering ethical situations that impact the public health, safety, and welfare.
the one constant in those situations is the clear and unambiguous responsibility and obligation on the part of the professional engineer to hold paramount the public health, safety, and welfare.
TTL
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case112:Public_Safety_at_Risk_-_General_Public_Welfare_Concern a proeth:PublicSafetyatRisk,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Public Safety at Risk - General Public Welfare Concern" ;
proeth:activeperiod "Throughout the described situation, from initial identification of the concern through resolution" ;
proeth:affectedparties "Engineer A",
"General public",
"Government authorities",
"Public officials" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.98" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "112" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-27T22:22:44.231662+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "112" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T22:22:44.231662+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Professional engineers are frequently faced with engineering ethical situations that impact the public health, safety, and welfare." ;
proeth:stateclass "Public Safety at Risk" ;
proeth:subject "The public health, safety, and welfare implicated by the engineering situation described" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Adequate corrective action by appropriate authorities consistent with engineering standards" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A has an obligation to further report the situation to appropriate local, state, and/or federal authorities to ensure that relevant engineering standards are consistent with protecting the public health, safety, and welfare.",
"Professional engineers are frequently faced with engineering ethical situations that impact the public health, safety, and welfare.",
"the one constant in those situations is the clear and unambiguous responsibility and obligation on the part of the professional engineer to hold paramount the public health, safety, and welfare." ;
proeth:triggeringevent "Engineer A's identification of a condition posing risk to public health, safety, and welfare" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "high" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 112 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T22:36:52.843467"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 112 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
112
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-27T22:22:44.231662+00:00
First case
112
Generated
2026-02-27T22:22:44.231662+00:00
Attributed to
Case 112 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T22:36:52.843467
Generated by
ProEthica Case 112 Extraction