Company B Engineers Professional Disassociation Decision
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/160#Company_B_Engineers_Professional_Disassociation_Decision
Properties
Instance of
ProfessionalDisassociationDecisionState
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ProfessionalDisassociationDecisionState
Active period
From the point at which all escalation has been exhausted and employer insists on proceeding, through the engineers' decision to withdraw
Affected parties
Company A
Company B (employer)
Engineers of Company B
Public
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Subject
Company B engineers' obligation to decide whether to withdraw from further service on the project after all escalation pathways have been exhausted and the employer continues to insist on proceeding with the disputed design
Terminated by
Engineers' withdrawal from the project
Triggering event
Ethics board's determination that Section 2(c) requires engineers to notify proper authority and withdraw from further service when the client or employer insists on proceeding with an unsafe design
Urgency level
high
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.' This mandate applies to engineers serving clients or employers
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.' This mandate applies to engineers serving clients or employers
TTL
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case160:Company_B_Engineers_Professional_Disassociation_Decision a proeth:ProfessionalDisassociationDecisionState,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Company B Engineers Professional Disassociation Decision" ;
proeth:activeperiod "From the point at which all escalation has been exhausted and employer insists on proceeding, through the engineers' decision to withdraw" ;
proeth:affectedparties "Company A",
"Company B (employer)",
"Engineers of Company B",
"Public" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "160" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T14:27:29.252806+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "160" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T14:27:29.252806+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
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.' This mandate applies to engineers serving clients or employers" ;
proeth:stateclass "Professional Disassociation Decision State" ;
proeth:subject "Company B engineers' obligation to decide whether to withdraw from further service on the project after all escalation pathways have been exhausted and the employer continues to insist on proceeding with the disputed design" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Engineers' withdrawal from the project" ;
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.' This mandate applies to engineers serving clients or employers" ;
proeth:triggeringevent "Ethics board's determination that Section 2(c) requires engineers to notify proper authority and withdraw from further service when the client or employer insists on proceeding with an unsafe design" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "high" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 160 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T14:53:00.987212"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 160 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
160
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T14:27:29.252806+00:00
First case
160
Generated
2026-03-02T14:27:29.252806+00:00
Attributed to
Case 160 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T14:53:00.987212
Generated by
ProEthica Case 160 Extraction