Safety-Concern-Dismissing Design Authority
Class
ad53faac
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Safety-Concern-DismissingDesignAuthority
Definition
A management or organizational authority role within a design firm that, upon receiving notification from a production firm's engineers of safety-critical deficiencies in its engineers' plans and specifications, dismisses those concerns, asserts the adequacy of the original design, and directs the production firm to proceed with manufacturing — thereby prioritizing organizational confidence in its own engineers over independent safety findings and generating a conflict between commercial interests and public safety obligations.
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Definition
A management or organizational authority role within a design firm that, upon receiving notification from a production firm's engineers of safety-critical deficiencies in its engineers' plans and specifications, dismisses those concerns, asserts the adequacy of the original design, and directs the production firm to proceed with manufacturing — thereby prioritizing organizational confidence in its own engineers over independent safety findings and generating a conflict between commercial interests and public safety obligations.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] A private product manufacturing company stakeholder role that employs engineers in product design and safety testing, bears authority over product development decisions including the scope of safety testing, and rejects engineer recommendations for additional safety testing on grounds of cost and schedule, thereby generating a conflict between the engineer's paramount public safety obligations and the employer's commercial interests.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Company 'A' replied that its engineers felt that the design and specifications for the equipment were adequate and safe and that Company 'B' should proceed to build the equipment as designed and specified
TTL
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rdfs:comment "A management or organizational authority role within a design firm that, upon receiving notification from a production firm's engineers of safety-critical deficiencies in its engineers' plans and specifications, dismisses those concerns, asserts the adequacy of the original design, and directs the production firm to proceed with manufacturing — thereby prioritizing organizational confidence in its own engineers over independent safety findings and generating a conflict between commercial interests and public safety obligations." ;
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
ad53faac886f6549...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
160
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-03-02T14:24:29.999661+00:00
First Discovered In Case
160
Generated
2026-03-02T14:24:29.999661+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 160 Extraction