Engineer-Employer-Loyalty-vs-Professional-Judgment-Standard-Instance
Rs · Resource
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/160#Engineer-Employer-Loyalty-vs-Professional-Judgment-Standard-Instance
Properties
Instance of
EngineerEmployerLoyaltyvs.ProfessionalJudgmentStandard
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#EngineerEmployerLoyaltyvs.ProfessionalJudgmentStandard
Confidence
0.9
Created by
NSPE Board of Ethical Review / Professional consensus
Document title
Engineer Employer Loyalty vs. Professional Judgment Standard
Importance
high
Used by
Engineers of Company B when their employer instructed them to proceed despite their professional safety findings
Used in context
Addresses the tension between Company B engineers' duty of loyalty to their employer and their independent professional judgment that the equipment is unsafe — including the limits of employer authority to override professional engineering assessments
Source Evidence
Source text
The officials of Company 'B' instructed its engineers to proceed with the work
Text references
The officials of Company 'B' instructed its engineers to proceed with the work
the engineers of Company 'B' in reviewing the plans and specifications came to the conclusion that they included certain miscalculations and technical deficiencies
TTL
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case160:Engineer-Employer-Loyalty-vs-Professional-Judgment-Standard-Instance a proeth:EngineerEmployerLoyaltyvs.ProfessionalJudgmentStandard,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer-Employer-Loyalty-vs-Professional-Judgment-Standard-Instance" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Resource" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:createdby "NSPE Board of Ethical Review / Professional consensus" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "160" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:documenttitle "Engineer Employer Loyalty vs. Professional Judgment Standard" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T14:23:58.075225+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "160" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T14:23:58.075225+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:resourceclass "Engineer Employer Loyalty vs. Professional Judgment Standard" ;
proeth:sourcetext "The officials of Company 'B' instructed its engineers to proceed with the work" ;
proeth:textreferences "The officials of Company 'B' instructed its engineers to proceed with the work",
"the engineers of Company 'B' in reviewing the plans and specifications came to the conclusion that they included certain miscalculations and technical deficiencies" ;
proeth:usedby "Engineers of Company B when their employer instructed them to proceed despite their professional safety findings" ;
proeth:usedincontext "Addresses the tension between Company B engineers' duty of loyalty to their employer and their independent professional judgment that the equipment is unsafe — including the limits of employer authority to override professional engineering assessments" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 160 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T14:53:00.984876"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 160 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
160
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T14:23:58.075225+00:00
First case
160
Generated
2026-03-02T14:23:58.075225+00:00
Attributed to
Case 160 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T14:53:00.984876
Generated by
ProEthica Case 160 Extraction