Company B Engineers Appropriate Authority Notification Obligation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/160#Company_B_Engineers_Appropriate_Authority_Notification_Obligation
Properties
Instance of
AppropriateAuthorityNotificationAfterProfessionalJudgmentSafetyOverrideObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#AppropriateAuthorityNotificationAfterProfessionalJudgmentSafetyOverrideObligation
Case context
Section 2(c) required engineers to notify proper authority of dangers they believed to exist when a client or employer insisted on proceeding with unsafe plans. Company B engineers retained this notification obligation after their concerns were dismissed.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.91
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineers of Company B
Obligation statement
Company B engineers were obligated to notify the proper authority of the dangers they believed to exist in Company A's plans and specifications, after their safety concerns were dismissed by Company A and overridden by their own employer.
Temporal scope
Upon dismissal of safety concerns by Company A and employer instruction to proceed
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Appropriate Authority Notification Triggered for Company B Engineers
Source Evidence
Source text
The last sentence of Section 2(c) is likewise clear in requiring that the engineers not only notify proper authority of the dangers which they believe to exist, but that they also 'withdraw from further service on the project.'
Text references
The last sentence of Section 2(c) is likewise clear in requiring that the engineers not only notify proper authority of the dangers which they believe to exist, but that they also 'withdraw from further service on the project.'
TTL
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case160:Company_B_Engineers_Appropriate_Authority_Notification_Obligation a proeth:AppropriateAuthorityNotificationAfterProfessionalJudgmentSafetyOverrideObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Company B Engineers Appropriate Authority Notification Obligation" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case160:Company_B_Engineers_Inter-Firm_Escalation_Completed_Without_Resolution ;
proeth:casecontext "Section 2(c) required engineers to notify proper authority of dangers they believed to exist when a client or employer insisted on proceeding with unsafe plans. Company B engineers retained this notification obligation after their concerns were dismissed." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.91" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case160:Appropriate_Authority_Notification_Triggered_for_Company_B_Engineers ;
proeth:discoveredincase "160" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T14:42:46.371997+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "160" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T14:42:46.371997+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineers of Company B" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Appropriate Authority Notification After Professional Judgment Safety Override Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Company B engineers were obligated to notify the proper authority of the dangers they believed to exist in Company A's plans and specifications, after their safety concerns were dismissed by Company A and overridden by their own employer." ;
proeth:sourcetext "The last sentence of Section 2(c) is likewise clear in requiring that the engineers not only notify proper authority of the dangers which they believe to exist, but that they also 'withdraw from further service on the project.'" ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon dismissal of safety concerns by Company A and employer instruction to proceed" ;
proeth:textreferences "The last sentence of Section 2(c) is likewise clear in requiring that the engineers not only notify proper authority of the dangers which they believe to exist, but that they also 'withdraw from further service on the project.'" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 160 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T14:53:01.003226"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 160 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
160
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T14:42:46.371997+00:00
First case
160
Generated
2026-03-02T14:42:46.371997+00:00
Attributed to
Case 160 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T14:53:01.003226
Generated by
ProEthica Case 160 Extraction