Proportional Escalation Obligation Applied to Engineer A vs BER 76-4 Contrast

@prefix case150: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/150#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> . @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> . case150:Proportional_Escalation_Obligation_Applied_to_Engineer_A_vs_BER_76-4_Contrast a proeth:ProportionalEscalationObligationCalibratedtoImminenceandBreadthofRisk, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Proportional Escalation Obligation Applied to Engineer A vs BER 76-4 Contrast" ; proeth:appliedto "BER 76-4 Engineer Doe's reporting obligation at public hearing", "Engineer A's escalation decision" ; proeth:balancingwith "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits", "Graduated Internal Escalation Before External Reporting Obligation" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ; proeth:concreteexpression "The Board's contrast between Engineer A's situation and BER 76-4 illustrates proportional escalation: Engineer Doe faced a public hearing with false data being presented (imminent, demonstrable harm requiring immediate external action), while Engineer A faced a general safety concern without confirmed incidents, personal involvement, or exhausted internal mechanisms (requiring measured internal escalation first)." ; proeth:confidence "0.9" ; 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 "The imminence, demonstrability, and breadth of the risk — combined with the engineer's epistemic position — determine the appropriate form and urgency of escalation; a scheduled public hearing with false data being presented demands immediate external action, while a general safety concern with active internal investigation demands internal escalation first." ; proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Medical Device Safety Review Engineer", "Engineer Doe Consulting Engineer Discovering Regulatory Violation" ; proeth:principleclass "Proportional Escalation Obligation Calibrated to Imminence and Breadth of Risk" ; proeth:sourcetext "In the present case, unlike the facts in BER Case No. 76-4, Engineer A is not faced with a scheduled public hearing at which he believed he had an obligation to correctly report information that was within his personal knowledge and for which the failure to report could result in a direct and demonstrable harm to the public." ; proeth:tensionresolution "Proportionality requires matching escalation form to risk characteristics; both cases honor public welfare paramount but through different appropriate responses calibrated to their specific facts." ; proeth:textreferences "In contrast, Engineer A is faced with a situation where, in his personal opinion, a serious risk may exist", "In the present case, unlike the facts in BER Case No. 76-4, Engineer A is not faced with a scheduled public hearing at which he believed he had an obligation to correctly report information that was within his personal knowledge and for which the failure to report could result in a direct and demonstrable harm to the public." ; proeth:wasattributedto "Case 150 Extraction" ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T14:52:22.174206"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 150 Extraction" .