Engineer B Subterfuge Prohibition Hazardous Material Communication
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/149#Engineer_B_Subterfuge_Prohibition_Hazardous_Material_Communication
Properties
Instance of
Subterfuge-as-AccompliceProhibitioninHazardousMaterialCommunicationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Subterfuge-as-AccompliceProhibitioninHazardousMaterialCommunicationObligation
Case context
Engineer B communicated the drum findings to the client using only the term 'questionable material' rather than clearly characterizing the likely hazardous nature of the contents and the resulting legal obligations.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.97
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer B
Obligation statement
Engineer B was obligated to refrain from using vague, euphemistic language such as 'questionable material' to describe what professional assessment indicated was likely hazardous waste, because such subterfuge made Engineer B an accomplice to potentially unlawful action and was wholly inconsistent with the NSPE Code of Ethics.
Temporal scope
At the time of communicating drum findings to the client
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Subterfuge-as-Accomplice Prohibition Applied to Engineer B Drum Communication
Source Evidence
Source text
We believe that this subterfuge is wholly inconsistent with the spirit and intent of the Code of Ethics because it makes the engineer an accomplice to what may amount to an unlawful action.
Text references
We believe that this subterfuge is wholly inconsistent with the spirit and intent of the Code of Ethics because it makes the engineer an accomplice to what may amount to an unlawful action.
the manner in which Engineer B communicated the presence of the drums on the property must have suggested to the client that there was a high likelihood that the drums contained hazardous materials.
TTL
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case149:Engineer_B_Subterfuge_Prohibition_Hazardous_Material_Communication a proeth:Subterfuge-as-AccompliceProhibitioninHazardousMaterialCommunicationObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Subterfuge Prohibition Hazardous Material Communication" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case149:Engineer_B_Business-Relationship-Driven_Vague_Hazard_Communication ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer B communicated the drum findings to the client using only the term 'questionable material' rather than clearly characterizing the likely hazardous nature of the contents and the resulting legal obligations." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.97" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case149:Subterfuge-as-Accomplice_Prohibition_Applied_to_Engineer_B_Drum_Communication ;
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 "Engineer B" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Subterfuge-as-Accomplice Prohibition in Hazardous Material Communication Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer B was obligated to refrain from using vague, euphemistic language such as 'questionable material' to describe what professional assessment indicated was likely hazardous waste, because such subterfuge made Engineer B an accomplice to potentially unlawful action and was wholly inconsistent with the NSPE Code of Ethics." ;
proeth:sourcetext "We believe that this subterfuge is wholly inconsistent with the spirit and intent of the Code of Ethics because it makes the engineer an accomplice to what may amount to an unlawful action." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of communicating drum findings to the client" ;
proeth:textreferences "We believe that this subterfuge is wholly inconsistent with the spirit and intent of the Code of Ethics because it makes the engineer an accomplice to what may amount to an unlawful action.",
"the manner in which Engineer B communicated the presence of the drums on the property must have suggested to the client that there was a high likelihood that the drums contained hazardous materials." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 149 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T12:35:30.897260"^^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
2026-03-01T12:35:30.897260
Generated by
ProEthica Case 149 Extraction