Detailed Review Sufficiency Standard Invoked Against Engineer A Sealing Practice
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/163#Detailed_Review_Sufficiency_Standard_Invoked_Against_Engineer_A_Sealing_Practice
Properties
Instance of
DetailedReviewSufficiencyStandardforSupervisorySealingPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#DetailedReviewSufficiencyStandardforSupervisorySealingPrinciple
Applied to
Plans prepared by non-registered graduate engineer subordinates
Plans prepared by registered engineer subordinates
Balancing with
Employer loyalty
Organizational efficiency
Concrete expression
Engineer A seals plans prepared by both registered and non-registered engineers without giving a detailed review or check of the design, which falls below the ethical standard requiring 'some detail' of checking and review before sealing — regardless of general supervisory involvement during design development.
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Interpretation
The standard requires more than conceptual involvement, answering technical questions, and reviewing project status; it requires the sealing engineer to actually check and review the documents in some detail before affixing the seal. Engineer A's admitted inability to perform detailed review means his sealing practice does not satisfy this standard.
Invoked by
Engineer A Chief Engineer Sealing Supervisor
Tension resolution
The principle is not balanced away by organizational scale or workload; the ethical obligation to review in detail before sealing is non-negotiable regardless of firm size or the number of concurrent projects.
Source Evidence
Source text
Because of the size of the organization and the large number of projects being designed at any one time, Engineer A finds it impossible to give a detailed review or check of the design.
Text references
Engineer A finds it impossible to give a detailed review or check of the design
He believes he is ethically and legally correct in not doing so because of his confidence in the ability of those he has hired
TTL
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case163:Detailed_Review_Sufficiency_Standard_Invoked_Against_Engineer_A_Sealing_Practice a proeth:DetailedReviewSufficiencyStandardforSupervisorySealingPrinciple,
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proeth:appliedto "Plans prepared by non-registered graduate engineer subordinates",
"Plans prepared by registered engineer subordinates" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Employer loyalty",
"Organizational efficiency" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A seals plans prepared by both registered and non-registered engineers without giving a detailed review or check of the design, which falls below the ethical standard requiring 'some detail' of checking and review before sealing — regardless of general supervisory involvement during design development." ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "163" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T14:18:21.815071+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "163" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T14:18:21.815071+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The standard requires more than conceptual involvement, answering technical questions, and reviewing project status; it requires the sealing engineer to actually check and review the documents in some detail before affixing the seal. Engineer A's admitted inability to perform detailed review means his sealing practice does not satisfy this standard." ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Chief Engineer Sealing Supervisor" ;
proeth:principleclass "Detailed Review Sufficiency Standard for Supervisory Sealing Principle" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Because of the size of the organization and the large number of projects being designed at any one time, Engineer A finds it impossible to give a detailed review or check of the design." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The principle is not balanced away by organizational scale or workload; the ethical obligation to review in detail before sealing is non-negotiable regardless of firm size or the number of concurrent projects." ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A finds it impossible to give a detailed review or check of the design",
"He believes he is ethically and legally correct in not doing so because of his confidence in the ability of those he has hired" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 163 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T14:34:52.541340"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 163 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
163
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T14:18:21.815071+00:00
First case
163
Generated
2026-03-01T14:18:21.815071+00:00
Attributed to
Case 163 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T14:34:52.541340
Generated by
ProEthica Case 163 Extraction