BER-Case-65-12
Rs · Resource
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/139#BER-Case-65-12
Properties
Instance of
Confidence
0.98
Created by
NSPE Board of Ethical Review
Document title
NSPE Board of Ethical Review Case No. 65-12
Importance
high
Used by
NSPE Board of Ethical Review for analogical reasoning about Engineer A's obligations
Used in context
Cited as early precedent establishing that engineers who believe a product is unsafe are ethically justified in refusing to participate in its processing or production, even at risk of employment loss
Source Evidence
Source text
As early as BER Case No. 65-12, the Board dealt with a situation in which a group of engineers believed that a product was unsafe.
Text references
As early as BER Case No. 65-12, the Board dealt with a situation in which a group of engineers believed that a product was unsafe.
the engineers were ethically justified in refusing to participate in the processing or production of the product in question
TTL
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
139
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T10:39:12.406108+00:00
First case
139
Generated
2026-02-28T10:39:12.406108+00:00
Attributed to
Case 139 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T11:01:04.755041
Generated by
ProEthica Case 139 Extraction