BER Case 21-7
Rs · Resource
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/5#BER_Case_21-7
Properties
Instance of
Confidence
0.99
Created by
NSPE Board of Ethical Review
Document title
NSPE Board of Ethical Review Case 21-7
Importance
high
Used by
BER in establishing the professional report completeness obligation and Engineer M's duty to challenge the DBA report
Used in context
Cited as precedent establishing that a registered professional engineer is obliged to include all relevant and pertinent information in a report so that stakeholders can make informed decisions and public safety is protected; applied to establish that Firm DBA's omission of material facts from the community engagement report was an ethical violation, and that Engineer M has both the right and duty to challenge the report
Source Evidence
Source text
In BER Case 21-7, the question put to the BER was as follows: should an Engineer include information about the utility generation mix and rolling blackouts in the report to an organization?
Text references
A report that does not contain relevant information will not help stakeholders make an informed decision and does not protect public safety, health, and welfare.
In BER Case 21-7, the question put to the BER was as follows: should an Engineer include information about the utility generation mix and rolling blackouts in the report to an organization?
Likewise, in this case, pertinent information was missing from the report.
The BER found that as a registered professional, that Engineer was obliged to include relevant and pertinent information in a report to the organization.
TTL
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
5
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-24T13:47:48.308135+00:00
First case
5
Generated
2026-02-24T13:47:48.308135+00:00
Attributed to
Case 5 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-24T14:07:05.442933
Generated by
ProEthica Case 5 Extraction