Engineer A Faithful Agent vs. Public Safety Paramount Conflict
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/150#Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_vs._Public_Safety_Paramount_Conflict
Properties
Instance of
Active period
From Engineer A's identification of the potential respirator defect through resolution of the internal investigation
Affected parties
Engineer A
MedTech
Public
Respirator users
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Subject
Engineer A's simultaneous obligations as faithful agent/trustee to MedTech and as engineer holding public health and safety paramount
Terminated by
Resolution of internal investigation with meaningful corrective action, or exhaustion of internal pathways triggering external reporting obligation
Triggering event
Engineer A's identification of a potential safety defect in a product manufactured by his employer MedTech
Urgency level
high
Source Evidence
Source text
the fundamental conflict between the obligation to hold paramount the public health and safety and some another key provision of the NSPE Code of Ethics—here the obligation to act for each employer or client as 'faithful agent or trustee'
Text references
Engineer A has properly raised the public safety issue
the fundamental conflict between the obligation to hold paramount the public health and safety and some another key provision of the NSPE Code of Ethics—here the obligation to act for each employer or client as 'faithful agent or trustee'
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Faithful Agent vs. Public Safety Paramount Conflict" ;
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proeth:affectedparties "Engineer A",
"MedTech",
"Public",
"Respirator users" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "150" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T14:31:09.175896+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "150" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T14:31:09.175896+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:sourcetext "the fundamental conflict between the obligation to hold paramount the public health and safety and some another key provision of the NSPE Code of Ethics—here the obligation to act for each employer or client as 'faithful agent or trustee'" ;
proeth:stateclass "Competing Duties State" ;
proeth:subject "Engineer A's simultaneous obligations as faithful agent/trustee to MedTech and as engineer holding public health and safety paramount" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Resolution of internal investigation with meaningful corrective action, or exhaustion of internal pathways triggering external reporting obligation" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A has properly raised the public safety issue",
"the fundamental conflict between the obligation to hold paramount the public health and safety and some another key provision of the NSPE Code of Ethics—here the obligation to act for each employer or client as 'faithful agent or trustee'" ;
proeth:triggeringevent "Engineer A's identification of a potential safety defect in a product manufactured by his employer MedTech" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "high" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 150 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T14:52:22.185991"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 150 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
150
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T14:31:09.175896+00:00
First case
150
Generated
2026-02-28T14:31:09.175896+00:00
Attributed to
Case 150 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T14:52:22.185991
Generated by
ProEthica Case 150 Extraction