Multi-Authority Escalation Obligation State
Class
5a2f1e02
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Multi-AuthorityEscalationObligationState
Definition
State in which a professional engineer has identified a serious, widespread, or imminent public safety risk and is obligated to pursue a 'full-bore' escalation campaign — contacting multiple authorities simultaneously or in rapid succession (supervisors, county officials, state and federal transportation agencies, licensure boards, prosecutors, fire marshals, and other agencies with jurisdiction) — rather than relying on a single notification to a single authority. The state is distinguished from graduated escalation by the breadth and urgency of the required response, activated when the danger is both significant and potentially widespread.
Properties
Subclass of
Definition
State in which a professional engineer has identified a serious, widespread, or imminent public safety risk and is obligated to pursue a 'full-bore' escalation campaign — contacting multiple authorities simultaneously or in rapid succession (supervisors, county officials, state and federal transportation agencies, licensure boards, prosecutors, fire marshals, and other agencies with jurisdiction) — rather than relying on a single notification to a single authority. The state is distinguished from graduated escalation by the breadth and urgency of the required response, activated when the danger is both significant and potentially widespread.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer A should have taken immediate steps to press his supervisor for strict enforcement of the five-ton limit
TTL
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix proethica_intermediate_extended: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate-extended> .
<http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Multi-AuthorityEscalationObligationState> a owl:Class ;
rdfs:label "Multi-Authority Escalation Obligation State" ;
rdfs:comment "State in which a professional engineer has identified a serious, widespread, or imminent public safety risk and is obligated to pursue a 'full-bore' escalation campaign — contacting multiple authorities simultaneously or in rapid succession (supervisors, county officials, state and federal transportation agencies, licensure boards, prosecutors, fire marshals, and other agencies with jurisdiction) — rather than relying on a single notification to a single authority. The state is distinguished from graduated escalation by the breadth and urgency of the required response, activated when the danger is both significant and potentially widespread." ;
rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#State> .
Metadata
Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
5a2f1e024c210636...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
132
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-27T12:30:16.529993+00:00
First Discovered In Case
132
Generated
2026-02-27T12:30:16.529993+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 132 Extraction