Regulatory Reporting Threat as Internal Escalation Lever State

Class 8db566ec
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#RegulatoryReportingThreatasInternalEscalationLeverState
Definition

State in which a professional engineer, having exhausted or nearly exhausted internal escalation channels, explicitly threatens to report a safety concern to an external regulatory authority as a final lever to compel organizational corrective action, creating a transitional state between internal advocacy and external whistleblowing.

Properties
Subclass of
State
http://proethica.org/ontology/core#State
Definition
State in which a professional engineer, having exhausted or nearly exhausted internal escalation channels, explicitly threatens to report a safety concern to an external regulatory authority as a final lever to compel organizational corrective action, creating a transitional state between internal advocacy and external whistleblowing.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer A indicates that if prompt measures are not taken to correct the problem, he will be compelled to report the matter to an appropriate federal regulatory agency
TTL
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proethica_intermediate_extended: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate-extended> . <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#RegulatoryReportingThreatasInternalEscalationLeverState> a owl:Class ; rdfs:label "Regulatory Reporting Threat as Internal Escalation Lever State" ; rdfs:comment "State in which a professional engineer, having exhausted or nearly exhausted internal escalation channels, explicitly threatens to report a safety concern to an external regulatory authority as a final lever to compel organizational corrective action, creating a transitional state between internal advocacy and external whistleblowing." ; rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#State> .
Metadata
Type
Class
Content Hash
8db566ec158b51cb...
Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
150
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-28T14:29:49.136720+00:00
First Discovered In Case
150
Generated
2026-02-28T14:29:49.136720+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 150 Extraction