Good Faith Safety Concern Threshold Satisfied by Engineer A's Bridge Movement Observation
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/137#Good_Faith_Safety_Concern_Threshold_Satisfied_by_Engineer_As_Bridge_Movement_Observation
Properties
Instance of
GoodFaithSafetyConcernThresholdforExternalReporting
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#GoodFaithSafetyConcernThresholdforExternalReporting
Applied to
Bridge movement observation
External reporting obligation
State transportation authority notification
Balancing with
Epistemic humility about the adequacy of crutch pile remediation
Risk of being wrong about severity of risk
Concrete expression
Engineer A's professional observation that the bridge movement is frightening, combined with knowledge of the structural history (rotten pilings, seven requiring replacement, crutch pile remediation without PE inspection), constitutes a good faith professional judgment basis for external reporting to state transportation authorities.
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Interpretation
Engineer A need not wait for a confirmed bridge failure before reporting to state transportation authorities; the good faith professional judgment that the bridge poses a genuine risk is sufficient to trigger the reporting obligation.
Invoked by
Engineer A Bridge Closure and Safety Monitor
Tension resolution
The good faith threshold is satisfied by Engineer A's professional observation of frightening movement and knowledge of the structural history; waiting for confirmed failure would mean waiting for people to be harmed.
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A observes that traffic is flowing and the movement of the bridge is frightening.
Text references
Engineer A observes that traffic is flowing and the movement of the bridge is frightening.
Log trucks and tankers cross it on a regular basis.
School buses go around it.
TTL
@prefix case137: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/137#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
case137:Good_Faith_Safety_Concern_Threshold_Satisfied_by_Engineer_As_Bridge_Movement_Observation a proeth:GoodFaithSafetyConcernThresholdforExternalReporting,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Good Faith Safety Concern Threshold Satisfied by Engineer A's Bridge Movement Observation" ;
proeth:appliedto "Bridge movement observation",
"External reporting obligation",
"State transportation authority notification" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Epistemic humility about the adequacy of crutch pile remediation",
"Risk of being wrong about severity of risk" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A's professional observation that the bridge movement is frightening, combined with knowledge of the structural history (rotten pilings, seven requiring replacement, crutch pile remediation without PE inspection), constitutes a good faith professional judgment basis for external reporting to state transportation authorities." ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "137" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T05:23:41.534850+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "137" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T05:23:41.534850+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Engineer A need not wait for a confirmed bridge failure before reporting to state transportation authorities; the good faith professional judgment that the bridge poses a genuine risk is sufficient to trigger the reporting obligation." ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Bridge Closure and Safety Monitor" ;
proeth:principleclass "Good Faith Safety Concern Threshold for External Reporting" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A observes that traffic is flowing and the movement of the bridge is frightening." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The good faith threshold is satisfied by Engineer A's professional observation of frightening movement and knowledge of the structural history; waiting for confirmed failure would mean waiting for people to be harmed." ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A observes that traffic is flowing and the movement of the bridge is frightening.",
"Log trucks and tankers cross it on a regular basis.",
"School buses go around it." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 137 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T05:45:21.958121"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 137 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
137
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T05:23:41.534850+00:00
First case
137
Generated
2026-03-01T05:23:41.534850+00:00
Attributed to
Case 137 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T05:45:21.958121
Generated by
ProEthica Case 137 Extraction