Confidentiality Instruction Suppressing Safety Report State

Class 7542abc4
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ConfidentialityInstructionSuppressingSafetyReportState
Definition

State in which a client, attorney, or retaining party has explicitly instructed a professional engineer to withhold, suppress, or not prepare a written report documenting findings that constitute a risk to public health, safety, or welfare — creating direct tension between the confidentiality or loyalty obligation to the instructing party and the paramount professional obligation to protect the public through disclosure to appropriate authorities.

Properties
Subclass of
State
http://proethica.org/ontology/core#State
Definition
State in which a client, attorney, or retaining party has explicitly instructed a professional engineer to withhold, suppress, or not prepare a written report documenting findings that constitute a risk to public health, safety, or welfare — creating direct tension between the confidentiality or loyalty obligation to the instructing party and the paramount professional obligation to protect the public through disclosure to appropriate authorities.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Client instructs Engineers not to file a written report, pays Engineer, and terminates the contract
TTL
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proethica_intermediate_extended: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate-extended> . <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ConfidentialityInstructionSuppressingSafetyReportState> a owl:Class ; rdfs:label "Confidentiality Instruction Suppressing Safety Report State" ; rdfs:comment "State in which a client, attorney, or retaining party has explicitly instructed a professional engineer to withhold, suppress, or not prepare a written report documenting findings that constitute a risk to public health, safety, or welfare — creating direct tension between the confidentiality or loyalty obligation to the instructing party and the paramount professional obligation to protect the public through disclosure to appropriate authorities." ; rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#State> .
Metadata
Type
Class
Content Hash
7542abc47936018e...
Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
59
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-25T22:24:56.102024+00:00
First Discovered In Case
59
Generated
2026-02-25T22:24:56.102024+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 59 Extraction