BER 89-7 Structural Engineer Confidentiality Non-Override Public Safety Reporting
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/149#BER_89-7_Structural_Engineer_Confidentiality_Non-Override_Public_Safety_Reporting
Properties
Instance of
ConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentStructuralSafetyObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentStructuralSafetyObligation
Case context
Engineer bound by confidentiality agreement; client disclosed electrical and mechanical code violations posing occupant injury risk; engineer treated confidentiality agreement as barring all third-party reporting.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
BER 89-7 Structural Engineer
Obligation statement
The BER 89-7 structural engineer was obligated to recognize that the confidentiality agreement did not bar reporting the electrical and mechanical code violations to appropriate public authorities, because the paramount public welfare obligation supersedes confidentiality when occupant safety is at risk.
Temporal scope
Upon determining that the electrical and mechanical deficiencies could cause injury to building occupants
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
BER 89-7 Confidentiality Agreement Suppressing Safety Report, BER 89-7 Out-of-Scope Code Violation in Occupied Building Sale
derivedFromPrinciple
Confidentiality Non-Applicability to Public Danger Invoked Across All Three Cases
Source Evidence
Source text
the engineer did not report the safety violations to any third parties
Text references
the Board concluded that the engineer had an obligation to go further particularly because the Code uses the term 'paramount' to describe the engineer's obligation to protect the public safety health and welfare.
the engineer did not report the safety violations to any third parties
TTL
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case149:BER_89-7_Structural_Engineer_Confidentiality_Non-Override_Public_Safety_Reporting a proeth:ConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentStructuralSafetyObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "BER 89-7 Structural Engineer Confidentiality Non-Override Public Safety Reporting" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case149:BER_89-7_Structural_Engineer_Client_Safety_Violation_Insistence_or_Withdrawal ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case149:BER_89-7_Confidentiality_Agreement_Suppressing_Safety_Report,
case149:BER_89-7_Out-of-Scope_Code_Violation_in_Occupied_Building_Sale ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer bound by confidentiality agreement; client disclosed electrical and mechanical code violations posing occupant injury risk; engineer treated confidentiality agreement as barring all third-party reporting." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case149:Confidentiality_Non-Applicability_to_Public_Danger_Invoked_Across_All_Three_Cases ;
proeth:discoveredincase "149" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T12:26:51.749955+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "149" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T12:26:51.749955+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "BER 89-7 Structural Engineer" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Confidentiality Non-Override of Imminent Structural Safety Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The BER 89-7 structural engineer was obligated to recognize that the confidentiality agreement did not bar reporting the electrical and mechanical code violations to appropriate public authorities, because the paramount public welfare obligation supersedes confidentiality when occupant safety is at risk." ;
proeth:sourcetext "the engineer did not report the safety violations to any third parties" ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon determining that the electrical and mechanical deficiencies could cause injury to building occupants" ;
proeth:textreferences "the Board concluded that the engineer had an obligation to go further particularly because the Code uses the term 'paramount' to describe the engineer's obligation to protect the public safety health and welfare.",
"the engineer did not report the safety violations to any third parties" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 149 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T12:35:30.898845"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 149 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
149
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T12:26:51.749955+00:00
First case
149
Generated
2026-03-01T12:26:51.749955+00:00
Attributed to
Case 149 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T12:35:30.898845
Generated by
ProEthica Case 149 Extraction