Ethics Bodies Unlimited Safety Scope Imposition Prohibition Engineer A Case
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/139#Ethics_Bodies_Unlimited_Safety_Scope_Imposition_Prohibition_Engineer_A_Case
Properties
Instance of
UnlimitedSafetyScopeImpositionProhibitionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#UnlimitedSafetyScopeImpositionProhibitionObligation
Case context
The Board is determining whether Engineer A has a mandatory ethical obligation to act upon observed safety issues on an adjacent property entirely outside the contracted scope of construction observation services for Client X.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Obligated party
NSPE Board of Ethical Review
Obligation statement
The Board of Ethical Review must refrain from imposing upon Engineer A an unlimited personal and professional safety accountability obligation extending to every potential health and safety risk incidentally encountered during the course of a day that is essentially unrelated to the contracted services.
Temporal scope
At the time of ethics review determination regarding Engineer A's obligations
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
an engineer cannot be expected to take on personal or professional responsibility for each and every potential health and safety risk they may be exposed to during the course of a day, which are essentially unrelated to the services for which the engineer is being professionally engaged
Text references
To impose such a responsibility upon an engineer could thrust the engineer into a never-ending scope of activities that are beyond what is reasonable, and could expose the engineer to unlimited personal and professional liability
an engineer cannot be expected to take on personal or professional responsibility for each and every potential health and safety risk they may be exposed to during the course of a day, which are essentially unrelated to the services for which the engineer is being professionally engaged
TTL
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case139:Ethics_Bodies_Unlimited_Safety_Scope_Imposition_Prohibition_Engineer_A_Case a proeth:UnlimitedSafetyScopeImpositionProhibitionObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Ethics Bodies Unlimited Safety Scope Imposition Prohibition Engineer A Case" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case139:Engineer_A_Adjacent_Third-Party_Safety_Disclosure_Owner_Y ;
proeth:casecontext "The Board is determining whether Engineer A has a mandatory ethical obligation to act upon observed safety issues on an adjacent property entirely outside the contracted scope of construction observation services for Client X." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "139" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T10:50:27.843700+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "139" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T10:50:27.843700+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "NSPE Board of Ethical Review" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Unlimited Safety Scope Imposition Prohibition Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The Board of Ethical Review must refrain from imposing upon Engineer A an unlimited personal and professional safety accountability obligation extending to every potential health and safety risk incidentally encountered during the course of a day that is essentially unrelated to the contracted services." ;
proeth:sourcetext "an engineer cannot be expected to take on personal or professional responsibility for each and every potential health and safety risk they may be exposed to during the course of a day, which are essentially unrelated to the services for which the engineer is being professionally engaged" ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of ethics review determination regarding Engineer A's obligations" ;
proeth:textreferences "To impose such a responsibility upon an engineer could thrust the engineer into a never-ending scope of activities that are beyond what is reasonable, and could expose the engineer to unlimited personal and professional liability",
"an engineer cannot be expected to take on personal or professional responsibility for each and every potential health and safety risk they may be exposed to during the course of a day, which are essentially unrelated to the services for which the engineer is being professionally engaged" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 139 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T11:01:04.764897"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 139 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
139
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T10:50:27.843700+00:00
First case
139
Generated
2026-02-28T10:50:27.843700+00:00
Attributed to
Case 139 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T11:01:04.764897
Generated by
ProEthica Case 139 Extraction