Good Faith Safety Concern Threshold Applied to Engineer A Respirator Concern
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/150#Good_Faith_Safety_Concern_Threshold_Applied_to_Engineer_A_Respirator_Concern
Properties
Instance of
GoodFaithSafetyConcernThresholdforExternalReporting
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#GoodFaithSafetyConcernThresholdforExternalReporting
Applied to
Engineer A's obligation to escalate
Infant respirator relief valve safety concern
Balancing with
Epistemic Humility Constraint on Escalation Urgency
Graduated Internal Escalation Before External Reporting Obligation
Concrete expression
Engineer A's good faith professional belief that the infant respirator relief valve posed a serious safety risk — even without confirmed incidents or applicable regulatory standards — was sufficient to generate a real reporting obligation, but the Board holds that this obligation is properly discharged through internal escalation first rather than immediate external threat.
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Interpretation
Good faith safety concern is necessary but not sufficient to justify immediate external reporting threats; the form and urgency of the response must also be calibrated to the engineer's epistemic position and the availability of internal mechanisms.
Invoked by
Engineer A Medical Device Safety Review Engineer
Tension resolution
Good faith concern triggers an obligation to pursue resolution, but the appropriate form of that pursuit is internal escalation when internal mechanisms are available and active.
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A is faced with a situation where, in his personal opinion, a serious risk may exist and the failure to adequately address the risk could result in tragic consequences.
Text references
Although an experienced professional engineer and by all indications a well-intended individual acting in good faith
Engineer A has properly raised the public safety issue
Engineer A is faced with a situation where, in his personal opinion, a serious risk may exist and the failure to adequately address the risk could result in tragic consequences.
TTL
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case150:Good_Faith_Safety_Concern_Threshold_Applied_to_Engineer_A_Respirator_Concern a proeth:GoodFaithSafetyConcernThresholdforExternalReporting,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Good Faith Safety Concern Threshold Applied to Engineer A Respirator Concern" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer A's obligation to escalate",
"Infant respirator relief valve safety concern" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Epistemic Humility Constraint on Escalation Urgency",
"Graduated Internal Escalation Before External Reporting Obligation" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A's good faith professional belief that the infant respirator relief valve posed a serious safety risk — even without confirmed incidents or applicable regulatory standards — was sufficient to generate a real reporting obligation, but the Board holds that this obligation is properly discharged through internal escalation first rather than immediate external threat." ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "150" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T14:40:38.984417+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "150" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T14:40:38.984417+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Good faith safety concern is necessary but not sufficient to justify immediate external reporting threats; the form and urgency of the response must also be calibrated to the engineer's epistemic position and the availability of internal mechanisms." ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Medical Device Safety Review Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Good Faith Safety Concern Threshold for External Reporting" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A is faced with a situation where, in his personal opinion, a serious risk may exist and the failure to adequately address the risk could result in tragic consequences." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Good faith concern triggers an obligation to pursue resolution, but the appropriate form of that pursuit is internal escalation when internal mechanisms are available and active." ;
proeth:textreferences "Although an experienced professional engineer and by all indications a well-intended individual acting in good faith",
"Engineer A has properly raised the public safety issue",
"Engineer A is faced with a situation where, in his personal opinion, a serious risk may exist and the failure to adequately address the risk could result in tragic consequences." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 150 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T14:52:22.172790"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 150 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
150
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T14:40:38.984417+00:00
First case
150
Generated
2026-02-28T14:40:38.984417+00:00
Attributed to
Case 150 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T14:52:22.172790
Generated by
ProEthica Case 150 Extraction