Client Confidentiality vs. Public Safety Balancing Framework
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ClientConfidentialityvs.PublicSafetyBalancingFramework
Definition
A professional ethics framework governing how engineers must balance their duty of confidentiality to clients against their paramount obligation to protect public health and safety, including the conditions under which public safety obligations override client confidentiality, and the graduated steps engineers must take before escalating to public authorities.
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A professional ethics framework governing how engineers must balance their duty of confidentiality to clients against their paramount obligation to protect public health and safety, including the conditions under which public safety obligations override client confidentiality, and the graduated steps engineers must take before escalating to public authorities.
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the facts presented in the case raised a conflict between two basic ethical obligations of an engineer: The obligation of the engineer to be faithful to the client and not to disclose confidential information concerning the business affairs of a client without that client's consent, and the obligation of the engineer to hold paramount the public health and safety
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Content Hash
a5cf494684318473...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
86
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-27T17:55:17.885289+00:00
First Discovered In Case
86
Generated
2026-02-27T17:55:17.885289+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 86 Extraction