Proactive Risk Disclosure Invoked For Five Year Defect History
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/57#Proactive_Risk_Disclosure_Invoked_For_Five_Year_Defect_History
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Bridge structural risk assessment
Disclosure of five-year inspection failure history to Engineer B
Balancing with
Scope of engineer intern reporting role
Concrete expression
Having discovered through records review that the same bridge defect had been missed for at least five years, Engineer Intern A was obligated to proactively disclose this risk-amplifying information to Engineer B without waiting to be asked, because the duration of the missed inspection materially affects the assessment of structural risk to the traveling public
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Interpretation
Proactive risk disclosure requires communicating not only the existence of a current defect but all information that would materially affect a supervisor's or regulator's assessment of the risk level, including how long the defect has been present and unaddressed
Invoked by
Engineer Intern A Bridge Inspection Program Engineer Intern
Tension resolution
The proactive disclosure obligation applies regardless of intern status when the engineer possesses material risk information obtained through professional review
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer Intern A reviewed the inspector's reports and photographs going back five years and discovered that the same inspector had failed to report the same defect for at least five years
Text references
Engineer Intern A reported the defect to Engineer B but did not report the fact that the defect had been visibly obvious for at least five years
Engineer Intern A reviewed the inspector's reports and photographs going back five years and discovered that the same inspector had failed to report the same defect for at least five years
TTL
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case57:Proactive_Risk_Disclosure_Invoked_For_Five_Year_Defect_History a proeth:ProactiveRiskDisclosure,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Proactive Risk Disclosure Invoked For Five Year Defect History" ;
proeth:appliedto "Bridge structural risk assessment",
"Disclosure of five-year inspection failure history to Engineer B" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Scope of engineer intern reporting role" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Having discovered through records review that the same bridge defect had been missed for at least five years, Engineer Intern A was obligated to proactively disclose this risk-amplifying information to Engineer B without waiting to be asked, because the duration of the missed inspection materially affects the assessment of structural risk to the traveling public" ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "57" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T21:20:15.030896+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "57" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T21:20:15.030896+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Proactive risk disclosure requires communicating not only the existence of a current defect but all information that would materially affect a supervisor's or regulator's assessment of the risk level, including how long the defect has been present and unaddressed" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer Intern A Bridge Inspection Program Engineer Intern" ;
proeth:principleclass "Proactive Risk Disclosure" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer Intern A reviewed the inspector's reports and photographs going back five years and discovered that the same inspector had failed to report the same defect for at least five years" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The proactive disclosure obligation applies regardless of intern status when the engineer possesses material risk information obtained through professional review" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer Intern A reported the defect to Engineer B but did not report the fact that the defect had been visibly obvious for at least five years",
"Engineer Intern A reviewed the inspector's reports and photographs going back five years and discovered that the same inspector had failed to report the same defect for at least five years" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 57 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T21:32:46.439115"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 57 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
57
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-25T21:20:15.030896+00:00
First case
57
Generated
2026-02-25T21:20:15.030896+00:00
Attributed to
Case 57 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T21:32:46.439115
Generated by
ProEthica Case 57 Extraction