Business-Relationship Preservation Displacing Safety Reporting State
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3682eb6e
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Business-RelationshipPreservationDisplacingSafetyReportingState
Definition
State in which a professional engineer's primary motivation for suppressing or minimizing a safety or regulatory disclosure is the preservation of a business relationship with a client, rather than a genuine confidentiality obligation — causing the engineer to communicate hazard information in a deliberately vague or indirect manner that falls short of the explicit, actionable notification required by professional ethics codes, and making the engineer a de facto accomplice to potential legal violations.
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Definition
State in which a professional engineer's primary motivation for suppressing or minimizing a safety or regulatory disclosure is the preservation of a business relationship with a client, rather than a genuine confidentiality obligation — causing the engineer to communicate hazard information in a deliberately vague or indirect manner that falls short of the explicit, actionable notification required by professional ethics codes, and making the engineer a de facto accomplice to potential legal violations.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer B's primary concern was not so much maintaining the client's confidentiality as it was in maintaining good business relations with a client
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rdfs:comment "State in which a professional engineer's primary motivation for suppressing or minimizing a safety or regulatory disclosure is the preservation of a business relationship with a client, rather than a genuine confidentiality obligation — causing the engineer to communicate hazard information in a deliberately vague or indirect manner that falls short of the explicit, actionable notification required by professional ethics codes, and making the engineer a de facto accomplice to potential legal violations." ;
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Ontology
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Class
Content Hash
3682eb6e2c14f906...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
137
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-03-01T04:14:44.699544+00:00
First Discovered In Case
137
Generated
2026-03-01T04:14:44.699544+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 137 Extraction