DP11
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/160#DP11
Properties
Instance of
Decision Point Id
DP11
Decision question
Should Company B engineers, after exhausting internal and inter-firm escalation channels without resolution, limit their response to refusing project participation, or must they also notify an appropriate external regulatory authority or professional society to discharge their full public-protection duty?
Focus
Company B Engineers: Safety Consequence Communication, Graduated Escalation Sequence, and Threshold for External Regulatory Notification
Option1
After exhausting internal and inter-firm escalation channels and proposing impartial arbitration without resolution, both refuse all project-connected participation and notify an appropriate regulatory authority or professional society, on the grounds that withdrawal alone leaves the ultimate users unprotected and the public-welfare duty demands affirmative action beyond personal non-complicity.
Option2
Refuse all project-connected participation as the terminal ethical step, without notifying external regulatory or professional bodies, on the grounds that the graduated escalation sequence — internal reporting, inter-firm escalation, and impartial arbitration proposal — fully discharges the engineers' personal public-protection duty and that external notification before arbitration is exhausted would be premature.
Option3
Treat the proposal of submission to an impartial expert body as the next required intermediate step before either refusing participation or escalating externally, reasoning that precipitous withdrawal or regulatory notification is ethically premature while an orderly professional remedy — impartial arbitration — remains available and has not yet been formally rejected by both parties.
Role
Engineer
TTL
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case160:DP11 a proeth-cases:DecisionPoint,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "DP11" ;
proeth:decisionPointId "DP11" ;
proeth:decisionQuestion "Should Company B engineers, after exhausting internal and inter-firm escalation channels without resolution, limit their response to refusing project participation, or must they also notify an appropriate external regulatory authority or professional society to discharge their full public-protection duty?" ;
proeth:focus "Company B Engineers: Safety Consequence Communication, Graduated Escalation Sequence, and Threshold for External Regulatory Notification" ;
proeth:option1 "After exhausting internal and inter-firm escalation channels and proposing impartial arbitration without resolution, both refuse all project-connected participation and notify an appropriate regulatory authority or professional society, on the grounds that withdrawal alone leaves the ultimate users unprotected and the public-welfare duty demands affirmative action beyond personal non-complicity." ;
proeth:option2 "Refuse all project-connected participation as the terminal ethical step, without notifying external regulatory or professional bodies, on the grounds that the graduated escalation sequence — internal reporting, inter-firm escalation, and impartial arbitration proposal — fully discharges the engineers' personal public-protection duty and that external notification before arbitration is exhausted would be premature." ;
proeth:option3 "Treat the proposal of submission to an impartial expert body as the next required intermediate step before either refusing participation or escalating externally, reasoning that precipitous withdrawal or regulatory notification is ethically premature while an orderly professional remedy — impartial arbitration — remains available and has not yet been formally rejected by both parties." ;
proeth:roleLabel "Engineer" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T15:10:46.723174"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 160 Extraction" .
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2026-03-02T15:10:46.723174
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ProEthica Case 160 Extraction