Engineer A Organizational Scale Non-Excuse Responsible Charge Sealing
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/163#Engineer_A_Organizational_Scale_Non-Excuse_Responsible_Charge_Sealing
Properties
Instance of
OrganizationalScaleNon-ExcuseforResponsibleChargeReviewObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#OrganizationalScaleNon-ExcuseforResponsibleChargeReviewObligation
Case context
Engineer A rationalized his failure to conduct detailed reviews by citing the size of his organization and the volume of concurrent projects — a rationalization the Board rejected as ethically insufficient.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (Chief Engineer)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to refrain from using the size of his organization and the volume of concurrent projects as justification for sealing plans without having conducted a detailed review, recognizing that organizational scale is a self-imposed condition that does not diminish the responsible charge requirement.
Temporal scope
Throughout Engineer A's practice as chief engineer of the large firm
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer A Organizational Scale Preventing Adequate Review
Source Evidence
Source text
In a large engineering firm this role is crucial to the successful operation of the firm
Text references
In a large engineering firm this role is crucial to the successful operation of the firm
the chief engineer should be involved at the outset of the project in the establishment of the design concept and the design requirements
TTL
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case163:Engineer_A_Organizational_Scale_Non-Excuse_Responsible_Charge_Sealing a proeth:OrganizationalScaleNon-ExcuseforResponsibleChargeReviewObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Organizational Scale Non-Excuse Responsible Charge Sealing" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case163:Engineer_A_Responsible_Charge_Active_Review_Obligation_Violation ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case163:Engineer_A_Organizational_Scale_Preventing_Adequate_Review ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A rationalized his failure to conduct detailed reviews by citing the size of his organization and the volume of concurrent projects — a rationalization the Board rejected as ethically insufficient." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case163:Professional_Accountability_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_Organizational_Scale_Rationalization ;
proeth:discoveredincase "163" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T14:26:11.018989+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "163" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T14:26:11.018989+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A (Chief Engineer)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Organizational Scale Non-Excuse for Responsible Charge Review Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to refrain from using the size of his organization and the volume of concurrent projects as justification for sealing plans without having conducted a detailed review, recognizing that organizational scale is a self-imposed condition that does not diminish the responsible charge requirement." ;
proeth:sourcetext "In a large engineering firm this role is crucial to the successful operation of the firm" ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout Engineer A's practice as chief engineer of the large firm" ;
proeth:textreferences "In a large engineering firm this role is crucial to the successful operation of the firm",
"the chief engineer should be involved at the outset of the project in the establishment of the design concept and the design requirements" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 163 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T14:34:52.838562"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 163 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
163
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T14:26:11.018989+00:00
First case
163
Generated
2026-03-01T14:26:11.018989+00:00
Attributed to
Case 163 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T14:34:52.838562
Generated by
ProEthica Case 163 Extraction