Engineer B Professional Accountability Supervisory Seal
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/120#Engineer_B_Professional_Accountability_Supervisory_Seal
Definition
By signing and sealing documents produced by others under his direction and control, Engineer B publicly accepts full professional accountability for those documents, including accountability for the adequacy of his supervision of the CADD work.
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Sealed engineering documents produced by subordinates under Engineer B's direction and control
Balancing with
Employer Loyalty
Concrete expression
By signing and sealing documents produced by others under his direction and control, Engineer B publicly accepts full professional accountability for those documents, including accountability for the adequacy of his supervision of the CADD work.
Confidence
0.9
Interpretation
Supervisory sealing extends accountability to encompass both the technical content of the documents and the quality of the oversight exercised. Engineer B cannot disclaim responsibility by attributing errors to subordinates when the seal represents Engineer B's professional endorsement.
Tension resolution
Accountability attaches to the seal regardless of who physically produced the documents, provided direction and control were exercised.
Match Confidence
0.95
Match Reasoning
Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Professional Accountability'
Matched Ontology Label
Professional Accountability
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer B
Source Evidence
Text references
Engineer B, a registered professional engineer signs and seals documents which are the results of the efforts of others using a CADD system working under Engineer B's direction and control.
Source text
Engineer B, a registered professional engineer signs and seals documents which are the results of the efforts of others using a CADD system working under Engineer B's direction and control.
TTL
@prefix case120: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/120#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> .
@prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> .
@prefix proeth-prov: <http://proethica.org/provenance#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
case120:Engineer_B_Professional_Accountability_Supervisory_Seal a proeth:ProfessionalAccountability,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Professional Accountability Supervisory Seal" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case120:Agent_Engineer_B ;
proeth:appliedTo "Sealed engineering documents produced by subordinates under Engineer B's direction and control" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Employer Loyalty" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "By signing and sealing documents produced by others under his direction and control, Engineer B publicly accepts full professional accountability for those documents, including accountability for the adequacy of his supervision of the CADD work." ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:interpretation "Supervisory sealing extends accountability to encompass both the technical content of the documents and the quality of the oversight exercised. Engineer B cannot disclaim responsibility by attributing errors to subordinates when the seal represents Engineer B's professional endorsement." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer B" ;
proeth:principleClass "Professional Accountability" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "Accountability attaches to the seal regardless of who physically produced the documents, provided direction and control were exercised." ;
proeth:textReferences "Engineer B, a registered professional engineer signs and seals documents which are the results of the efforts of others using a CADD system working under Engineer B's direction and control." ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 120 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T18:07:04.619436+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 120 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.95 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Professional Accountability'" ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass proeth:ProfessionalAccountability ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Professional Accountability" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "Engineer B, a registered professional engineer signs and seals documents which are the results of the efforts of others using a CADD system working under Engineer B's direction and control." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "By signing and sealing documents produced by others under his direction and control, Engineer B publicly accepts full professional accountability for those documents, including accountability for the adequacy of his supervision of the CADD work." ;
skos:definition "By signing and sealing documents produced by others under his direction and control, Engineer B publicly accepts full professional accountability for those documents, including accountability for the adequacy of his supervision of the CADD work." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T18:07:04.619436+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 120 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 120 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
120
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-04T18:07:04.619436+00:00
First case
120
Generated
2026-06-04T18:07:04.619436+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 120 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 120 Extraction