BER 89-7 Engineer Confidentiality Non-Override Structural Safety
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/137#BER_89-7_Engineer_Confidentiality_Non-Override_Structural_Safety
Properties
Instance of
ConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentStructuralSafetyObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentStructuralSafetyObligation
Case context
BER Case No. 89-7: The engineer's structural report was subject to a confidentiality agreement; the engineer used this as justification for not reporting code violations to third parties or public authorities.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.91
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer (BER Case No. 89-7)
Obligation statement
The engineer in BER 89-7 was obligated to report the electrical and mechanical code violations to appropriate public authorities notwithstanding the confidentiality agreement with the client, because the paramount duty to protect public health, safety, and welfare pre-empts contractual confidentiality when occupants face safety risk.
Temporal scope
Upon discovering the code violations during the course of providing services
Relationships
competesWith
BER 89-7 Engineer Brief Report Mention Insufficiency Safety Notification, BER 89-7 Engineer Client Safety Violation Insistence or Withdrawal
derivedFromPrinciple
Confidentiality Agreement Non-Supersession Invoked in BER 89-7
Source Evidence
Source text
Under the terms of the agreement with the client, the structural report written by the engineer was to remain confidential.
Text references
In determining that it was unethical for the engineer not to report the safety violations to appropriate public authorities...
Under the terms of the agreement with the client, the structural report written by the engineer was to remain confidential.
in view of the terms of the agreement, the engineer did not report the safety violations to any third parties.
TTL
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case137:BER_89-7_Engineer_Confidentiality_Non-Override_Structural_Safety a proeth:ConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentStructuralSafetyObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "BER 89-7 Engineer Confidentiality Non-Override Structural Safety" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case137:BER_89-7_Engineer_Brief_Report_Mention_Insufficiency_Safety_Notification,
case137:BER_89-7_Engineer_Client_Safety_Violation_Insistence_or_Withdrawal ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case137:BER_89-7_Engineer_Brief_Report_Mention_Insufficiency_Safety_Notification ;
proeth:casecontext "BER Case No. 89-7: The engineer's structural report was subject to a confidentiality agreement; the engineer used this as justification for not reporting code violations to third parties or public authorities." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.91" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case137:Confidentiality_Agreement_Non-Supersession_Invoked_in_BER_89-7 ;
proeth:discoveredincase "137" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T05:33:27.923922+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "137" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T05:33:27.923922+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer (BER Case No. 89-7)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Confidentiality Non-Override of Imminent Structural Safety Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The engineer in BER 89-7 was obligated to report the electrical and mechanical code violations to appropriate public authorities notwithstanding the confidentiality agreement with the client, because the paramount duty to protect public health, safety, and welfare pre-empts contractual confidentiality when occupants face safety risk." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Under the terms of the agreement with the client, the structural report written by the engineer was to remain confidential." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon discovering the code violations during the course of providing services" ;
proeth:textreferences "In determining that it was unethical for the engineer not to report the safety violations to appropriate public authorities...",
"Under the terms of the agreement with the client, the structural report written by the engineer was to remain confidential.",
"in view of the terms of the agreement, the engineer did not report the safety violations to any third parties." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 137 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T05:45:21.971752"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 137 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
137
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T05:33:27.923922+00:00
First case
137
Generated
2026-03-01T05:33:27.923922+00:00
Attributed to
Case 137 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T05:45:21.971752
Generated by
ProEthica Case 137 Extraction