Engineer A Competing Confidentiality Safety Code Provision Contextual Balancing
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/84#Engineer_A_Competing_Confidentiality_Safety_Code_Provision_Contextual_Balancing
Properties
Instance of
CompetingConfidentiality-SafetyCodeProvisionContextualBalancingObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CompetingConfidentiality-SafetyCodeProvisionContextualBalancingObligation
Case context
Engineer A faced a direct conflict between his contractual confidentiality obligation and his duty to report electrical and mechanical code violations that could injure building occupants. He resolved the conflict in favor of confidentiality without applying the public-safety exception.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to recognize the conflict between the NSPE Code's confidentiality provision (Section III.4) and the paramount public welfare obligation (Section II.1.a), and to resolve that conflict by applying the public-safety exception clause (Section II.1.c) rather than treating the confidentiality agreement as absolute.
Temporal scope
Upon learning of the electrical and mechanical code violations from the client
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Competing Code Provision Contextual Balancing — III.4 vs. II.1.a. vs. II.1.c.
Source Evidence
Source text
Under the terms of the agreement with the client, the structural report written by Engineer A is to remain confidential
Text references
Engineer A does not report the safety violations to any third party
Under the terms of the agreement with the client, the structural report written by Engineer A is to remain confidential
the building contains deficiencies in the electrical and mechanical systems which violate applicable codes and standards
TTL
@prefix case84: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/84#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> .
@prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
case84:Engineer_A_Competing_Confidentiality_Safety_Code_Provision_Contextual_Balancing a proeth:CompetingConfidentiality-SafetyCodeProvisionContextualBalancingObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Competing Confidentiality Safety Code Provision Contextual Balancing" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case84:Engineer_A_Section_III.4_Client-Transmitted_Confidentiality_Engagement_Recognition ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case84:Confidentiality_Instruction_Suppressing_Safety_Report_to_Third_Parties ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A faced a direct conflict between his contractual confidentiality obligation and his duty to report electrical and mechanical code violations that could injure building occupants. He resolved the conflict in favor of confidentiality without applying the public-safety exception." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/84#Competing_Code_Provision_Contextual_Balancing_—_III.4_vs._II.1.a._vs._II.1.c.> ;
proeth:discoveredincase "84" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T13:38:59.518980+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "84" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T13:38:59.518980+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Competing Confidentiality-Safety Code Provision Contextual Balancing Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to recognize the conflict between the NSPE Code's confidentiality provision (Section III.4) and the paramount public welfare obligation (Section II.1.a), and to resolve that conflict by applying the public-safety exception clause (Section II.1.c) rather than treating the confidentiality agreement as absolute." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Under the terms of the agreement with the client, the structural report written by Engineer A is to remain confidential" ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon learning of the electrical and mechanical code violations from the client" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A does not report the safety violations to any third party",
"Under the terms of the agreement with the client, the structural report written by Engineer A is to remain confidential",
"the building contains deficiencies in the electrical and mechanical systems which violate applicable codes and standards" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 84 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T13:56:58.169256"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 84 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
84
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T13:38:59.518980+00:00
First case
84
Generated
2026-03-01T13:38:59.518980+00:00
Attributed to
Case 84 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T13:56:58.169256
Generated by
ProEthica Case 84 Extraction