Confidentiality-Bound Structural Safety Discovering Engineer
Class
6233b151
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Confidentiality-BoundStructuralSafetyDiscoveringEngineer
Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer is retained under a formal confidentiality agreement to assess a building's structural integrity for a client planning to sell the property 'as is,' and during the engagement learns from the client of known code violations in systems outside the engineer's specialty that pose injury risks to occupants, bearing obligations to inform the client of the safety implications, note the disclosure in the report, and — because the NSPE Code uses the term 'paramount' — report the safety violations to appropriate public authorities even when the confidentiality agreement and client instructions counsel silence.
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Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer is retained under a formal confidentiality agreement to assess a building's structural integrity for a client planning to sell the property 'as is,' and during the engagement learns from the client of known code violations in systems outside the engineer's specialty that pose injury risks to occupants, bearing obligations to inform the client of the safety implications, note the disclosure in the report, and — because the NSPE Code uses the term 'paramount' — report the safety violations to appropriate public authorities even when the confidentiality agreement and client instructions counsel silence.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer is retained to inspect a building under a confidentiality agreement, and during the engagement the client discloses known code violations in systems outside the engineer's specialty, bearing obligations to inform the client of the safety implications and note the disclosure in the report, but facing an ethical conflict between the confidentiality obligation and the paramount duty to report safety violations to appropriate public authorities.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Under the terms of the agreement with the client, the structural report written by the engineer was to remain confidential
TTL
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rdfs:comment "A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer is retained under a formal confidentiality agreement to assess a building's structural integrity for a client planning to sell the property 'as is,' and during the engagement learns from the client of known code violations in systems outside the engineer's specialty that pose injury risks to occupants, bearing obligations to inform the client of the safety implications, note the disclosure in the report, and — because the NSPE Code uses the term 'paramount' — report the safety violations to appropriate public authorities even when the confidentiality agreement and client instructions counsel silence." ;
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Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
6233b1511fca7bb9...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
137
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-03-01T04:14:36.693030+00:00
First Discovered In Case
137
Generated
2026-03-01T04:14:36.693030+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 137 Extraction