Engineer A Public Welfare Paramount Scaffolding Design Obligation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/140#Engineer_A_Public_Welfare_Paramount_Scaffolding_Design_Obligation
Properties
Instance of
Case context
Engineer A is designing scaffolding for a parkway ramp with limited clearance and has identified a foreseeable risk from prohibited commercial vehicles, implicating his paramount duty to protect public welfare under NSPE Code I.1.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A is obligated to hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of construction workers and the passing public in designing the parkway scaffolding, ensuring that the design accounts for all foreseeable hazards — including the risk from illegally operating commercial vehicles — and does not subordinate public safety to schedule, cost, or supervisor direction.
Temporal scope
Throughout the scaffolding design process
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
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.
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.
Engineer A is directed by his supervisor to design inspection and construction scaffolding for a noncommercial parkway cloverleaf ramp with limited height and width clearance.
TTL
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case140:Engineer_A_Public_Welfare_Paramount_Scaffolding_Design_Obligation a proeth:SafetyObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Public Welfare Paramount Scaffolding Design Obligation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case140:Engineer_A_Corrective_Options_Presentation_Supervisor_Present_Case ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case140:Engineer_A_Corrective_Options_Presentation_Supervisor_Present_Case ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A is designing scaffolding for a parkway ramp with limited clearance and has identified a foreseeable risk from prohibited commercial vehicles, implicating his paramount duty to protect public welfare under NSPE Code I.1." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case140:Public_Welfare_Paramount_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_Scaffolding_Safety,
case140:Public_Welfare_Paramount_Invoked_In_Present_Case_Scaffolding_Safety ;
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 "Safety Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A is obligated to hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of construction workers and the passing public in designing the parkway scaffolding, ensuring that the design accounts for all foreseeable hazards — including the risk from illegally operating commercial vehicles — and does not subordinate public safety to schedule, cost, or supervisor direction." ;
proeth:sourcetext "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." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the scaffolding design process" ;
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.",
"Engineer A is directed by his supervisor to design inspection and construction scaffolding for a noncommercial parkway cloverleaf ramp with limited height and width clearance." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 140 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T01:40:09.756229"^^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
2026-02-28T01:40:09.756229
Generated by
ProEthica Case 140 Extraction