Insistence on Client Remedial Action or Withdrawal Invoked in BER 89-7
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/137#Insistence_on_Client_Remedial_Action_or_Withdrawal_Invoked_in_BER_89-7
Properties
Instance of
InsistenceonClientRemedialActionorProjectWithdrawalObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#InsistenceonClientRemedialActionorProjectWithdrawalObligation
Applied to
BER Case No. 89-7 engineer's passive response to discovered code violations
Balancing with
Client Loyalty
Confidentiality
Concrete expression
The engineer in BER 89-7 who discovered code violations and merely made brief mention in the report — without insisting on remedial action or refusing to continue work — committed an independent ethical failure beyond the failure to notify public authorities
Confidence
0.96
Importance
high
Interpretation
The ethics code's use of 'paramount' requires active insistence on remediation, not passive notation — the engineer must force the issue or withdraw
Invoked by
BER 89-7 Engineer Confidentiality-Bound Structural Safety Discovering Engineer
Tension resolution
Board held that passive acquiescence after notification was itself an ethical violation; the engineer should have insisted or refused to continue
Source Evidence
Source text
the engineer 'did not force the issue, but instead went along without dissent or comment. If the engineer's ethical concerns were real, the engineer should have insisted that the client take appropriate action or refuse to continue work on the project.'
Text references
The Board concluded that the engineer had an obligation to go further, particularly because the NSPE Code uses the term 'paramount' to describe the engineer's obligation to protect the public safety, health, and welfare.
the engineer 'did not force the issue, but instead went along without dissent or comment. If the engineer's ethical concerns were real, the engineer should have insisted that the client take appropriate action or refuse to continue work on the project.'
TTL
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proeth:balancingwith "Client Loyalty",
"Confidentiality" ;
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proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T05:31:01.524283+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "137" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T05:31:01.524283+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The ethics code's use of 'paramount' requires active insistence on remediation, not passive notation — the engineer must force the issue or withdraw" ;
proeth:invokedby "BER 89-7 Engineer Confidentiality-Bound Structural Safety Discovering Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Insistence on Client Remedial Action or Project Withdrawal Obligation" ;
proeth:sourcetext "the engineer 'did not force the issue, but instead went along without dissent or comment. If the engineer's ethical concerns were real, the engineer should have insisted that the client take appropriate action or refuse to continue work on the project.'" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Board held that passive acquiescence after notification was itself an ethical violation; the engineer should have insisted or refused to continue" ;
proeth:textreferences "The Board concluded that the engineer had an obligation to go further, particularly because the NSPE Code uses the term 'paramount' to describe the engineer's obligation to protect the public safety, health, and welfare.",
"the engineer 'did not force the issue, but instead went along without dissent or comment. If the engineer's ethical concerns were real, the engineer should have insisted that the client take appropriate action or refuse to continue work on the project.'" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 137 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T05:45:21.969078"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
137
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T05:31:01.524283+00:00
First case
137
Generated
2026-03-01T05:31:01.524283+00:00
Attributed to
Case 137 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T05:45:21.969078
Generated by
ProEthica Case 137 Extraction