Proactive Risk Disclosure Invoked by Engineer A for Owner Y Hazard
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/139#Proactive_Risk_Disclosure_Invoked_by_Engineer_A_for_Owner_Y_Hazard
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Client X
ES Consulting
Owner Y
Potential safety issues on Owner Y's adjacent property
Balancing with
Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits
Scope-of-Work Limitation as Incomplete Ethical Defense
Concrete expression
Engineer A must proactively communicate the observed safety risk to relevant parties — at minimum ES Consulting, and potentially Client X, Owner Y, and regulatory authorities — without waiting for formal requests, harm to materialize, or contractual authorization, because the risk affects third-party welfare and the professional obligation to disclose is not contingent on being asked
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Interpretation
Proactive disclosure is especially important here because Owner Y, having no relationship with any party in the engagement, has no mechanism to receive safety information unless Engineer A (or ES Consulting/Client X acting on Engineer A's notification) proactively provides it
Invoked by
Engineer A Construction Observation Engineer
Tension resolution
Proactive disclosure obligation overrides the passive interpretation of scope-of-work limitations; the engineer must act, not merely refrain from acting
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A observes potential safety issues relating to the performance of work by a subcontractor on a project being constructed on an adjacent piece of property for Owner Y
Text references
Engineer A observes potential safety issues relating to the performance of work by a subcontractor on a project being constructed on an adjacent piece of property for Owner Y, a party with whom neither Engineer A, ES Consulting, or Client X has any direct relationship
TTL
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case139:Proactive_Risk_Disclosure_Invoked_by_Engineer_A_for_Owner_Y_Hazard a proeth:ProactiveRiskDisclosure,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Proactive Risk Disclosure Invoked by Engineer A for Owner Y Hazard" ;
proeth:appliedto "Client X",
"ES Consulting",
"Owner Y",
"Potential safety issues on Owner Y's adjacent property" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits",
"Scope-of-Work Limitation as Incomplete Ethical Defense" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A must proactively communicate the observed safety risk to relevant parties — at minimum ES Consulting, and potentially Client X, Owner Y, and regulatory authorities — without waiting for formal requests, harm to materialize, or contractual authorization, because the risk affects third-party welfare and the professional obligation to disclose is not contingent on being asked" ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "139" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T10:42:04.297486+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "139" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T10:42:04.297486+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Proactive disclosure is especially important here because Owner Y, having no relationship with any party in the engagement, has no mechanism to receive safety information unless Engineer A (or ES Consulting/Client X acting on Engineer A's notification) proactively provides it" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Construction Observation Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Proactive Risk Disclosure" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A observes potential safety issues relating to the performance of work by a subcontractor on a project being constructed on an adjacent piece of property for Owner Y" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Proactive disclosure obligation overrides the passive interpretation of scope-of-work limitations; the engineer must act, not merely refrain from acting" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A observes potential safety issues relating to the performance of work by a subcontractor on a project being constructed on an adjacent piece of property for Owner Y, a party with whom neither Engineer A, ES Consulting, or Client X has any direct relationship" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 139 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T11:01:04.758860"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 139 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
139
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T10:42:04.297486+00:00
First case
139
Generated
2026-02-28T10:42:04.297486+00:00
Attributed to
Case 139 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T11:01:04.758860
Generated by
ProEthica Case 139 Extraction