Engineer A Good Faith Safety Concern External Reporting Threshold Assessment
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/140#Engineer_A_Good_Faith_Safety_Concern_External_Reporting_Threshold_Assessment
Properties
Instance of
Case context
Engineer A has a good faith belief, based on personal observation and professional judgment, that illegal commercial vehicle traffic on the parkway creates a material safety risk to construction workers and the public at the scaffolding site; this belief must be assessed against the threshold for external reporting under NSPE Code II.1.a.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.83
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A is obligated to assess whether his personal observations of illegally operating commercial vehicles on the parkway — combined with his professional judgment about the resulting scaffolding safety risk — rise to the threshold requiring external reporting to the state DOT or other regulatory authorities, and to take such reporting steps if the supervisor fails to act and the risk to construction workers and the public remains unaddressed.
Temporal scope
After notifying the supervisor and assessing the supervisor's response; conditionally triggered if the supervisor fails to address the hazard
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
From his personal experience driving on the parkway to and from work, Engineer A has observed commercial vehicles illegally driving on the parkway.
Text references
Engineer A is concerned that the safety of inspection and construction employees (as well as others) could be endangered if one of these commercial vehicles passes by the proposed inspection and construction scaffolding.
From his personal experience driving on the parkway to and from work, Engineer A has observed commercial vehicles illegally driving on the parkway.
TTL
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case140:Engineer_A_Good_Faith_Safety_Concern_External_Reporting_Threshold_Assessment a proeth:ReportingObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Good Faith Safety Concern External Reporting Threshold Assessment" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case140:Engineer_A_Graduated_Escalation_Scaffolding_Commercial_Vehicle_Hazard_Present_Case ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A has a good faith belief, based on personal observation and professional judgment, that illegal commercial vehicle traffic on the parkway creates a material safety risk to construction workers and the public at the scaffolding site; this belief must be assessed against the threshold for external reporting under NSPE Code II.1.a." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.83" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case140:Good_Faith_Safety_Concern_Threshold_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_Commercial_Vehicle_Observation ;
proeth:discoveredincase "140" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T01:21:02.025927+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "140" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T01:21:02.025927+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Reporting Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A is obligated to assess whether his personal observations of illegally operating commercial vehicles on the parkway — combined with his professional judgment about the resulting scaffolding safety risk — rise to the threshold requiring external reporting to the state DOT or other regulatory authorities, and to take such reporting steps if the supervisor fails to act and the risk to construction workers and the public remains unaddressed." ;
proeth:sourcetext "From his personal experience driving on the parkway to and from work, Engineer A has observed commercial vehicles illegally driving on the parkway." ;
proeth:temporalscope "After notifying the supervisor and assessing the supervisor's response; conditionally triggered if the supervisor fails to address the hazard" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A is concerned that the safety of inspection and construction employees (as well as others) could be endangered if one of these commercial vehicles passes by the proposed inspection and construction scaffolding.",
"From his personal experience driving on the parkway to and from work, Engineer A has observed commercial vehicles illegally driving on the parkway." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 140 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T01:40:09.756394"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 140 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
140
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T01:21:02.025927+00:00
First case
140
Generated
2026-02-28T01:21:02.025927+00:00
Attributed to
Case 140 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T01:40:09.756394
Generated by
ProEthica Case 140 Extraction