Engineer B Responsible Charge Subordinate Work
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/120#Engineer_B_Responsible_Charge_Subordinate_Work
Definition
Engineer B seals documents produced by others working under Engineer B's direction, satisfying responsible charge only if Engineer B has checked and reviewed those documents in some detail rather than relying solely on confidence in subordinates.
Properties
Instance of
ResponsibleChargeIntegrityPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ResponsibleChargeIntegrityPrinciple
Applied to
CADD-produced engineering documents prepared by subordinates and sealed by Engineer B
Balancing with
Professional Accountability
Concrete expression
Engineer B seals documents produced by others working under Engineer B's direction, satisfying responsible charge only if Engineer B has checked and reviewed those documents in some detail rather than relying solely on confidence in subordinates.
Confidence
0.93
Interpretation
Sealing work prepared by subordinates is ethically permissible when the sealing engineer exercises genuine direction, control, and detailed review, not merely general supervision or confidence in subordinate ability.
Tension resolution
The Board clarified that detailed review, not personal preparation, is the operative standard, resolving the tension between organizational practicality and accountability.
Match Confidence
0.97
Match Reasoning
Via class 'Responsible Charge Integrity Principle': Direct match to the existing Responsible Charge Integrity Principle in the ontology, which addresses genuine substantive oversight of all work performed under the engineer's seal.
Matched Ontology Label
Responsible Charge Integrity Principle
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer B
Source Evidence
Text references
The key requirement is that an engineer possesses sufficient competence, assumes full responsibility for the work product and carefully directs, controls and reviews the material prepared under the engineer's responsible charge.
it would not be unethical for an engineer to sign and seal the drawings in question as long as those plans were checked and reviewed by the engineer in some detail
Source text
it would not be unethical for an engineer to sign and seal the drawings in question as long as those plans were checked and reviewed by the engineer in some detail
TTL
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@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
case120:Engineer_B_Responsible_Charge_Subordinate_Work a proeth:ResponsibleChargeIntegrityPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Responsible Charge Subordinate Work" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case120:Agent_Engineer_B ;
proeth:appliedTo "CADD-produced engineering documents prepared by subordinates and sealed by Engineer B" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Professional Accountability" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer B seals documents produced by others working under Engineer B's direction, satisfying responsible charge only if Engineer B has checked and reviewed those documents in some detail rather than relying solely on confidence in subordinates." ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:interpretation "Sealing work prepared by subordinates is ethically permissible when the sealing engineer exercises genuine direction, control, and detailed review, not merely general supervision or confidence in subordinate ability." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer B CADD Document Sealing" ;
proeth:principleClass "Responsible Charge Integrity Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The Board clarified that detailed review, not personal preparation, is the operative standard, resolving the tension between organizational practicality and accountability." ;
proeth:textReferences "The key requirement is that an engineer possesses sufficient competence, assumes full responsibility for the work product and carefully directs, controls and reviews the material prepared under the engineer's responsible charge.",
"it would not be unethical for an engineer to sign and seal the drawings in question as long as those plans were checked and reviewed by the engineer in some detail" ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 120 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "discussion" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T18:09:59.425228+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 120 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.97 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Via class 'Responsible Charge Integrity Principle': Direct match to the existing Responsible Charge Integrity Principle in the ontology, which addresses genuine substantive oversight of all work performed under the engineer's seal." ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass proeth:ResponsibleChargeIntegrityPrinciple ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Responsible Charge Integrity Principle" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "it would not be unethical for an engineer to sign and seal the drawings in question as long as those plans were checked and reviewed by the engineer in some detail" ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer B seals documents produced by others working under Engineer B's direction, satisfying responsible charge only if Engineer B has checked and reviewed those documents in some detail rather than relying solely on confidence in subordinates." ;
skos:definition "Engineer B seals documents produced by others working under Engineer B's direction, satisfying responsible charge only if Engineer B has checked and reviewed those documents in some detail rather than relying solely on confidence in subordinates." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T18:09:59.425228+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
discussion
First discovered
2026-06-04T18:09:59.425228+00:00
First case
120
Generated
2026-06-04T18:09:59.425228+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 120 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 120 Extraction