Engineer A Confidentiality Agreement Non-Excuse Safety Code Violation Reporting
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/84#Engineer_A_Confidentiality_Agreement_Non-Excuse_Safety_Code_Violation_Reporting
Properties
Instance of
ConfidentialityAgreementNon-ExcuseforKnownSafetyCodeViolationReportingObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ConfidentialityAgreementNon-ExcuseforKnownSafetyCodeViolationReportingObligation
Case context
Engineer A operated under a confidentiality agreement requiring his structural report to remain confidential. He used this agreement to justify not reporting electrical and mechanical code violations to any third party, despite knowing those violations could injure occupants.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to recognize that the confidentiality agreement with the client did not excuse him from reporting known electrical and mechanical code violations to appropriate public authorities, because the NSPE Code's paramount public welfare obligation supersedes contractual confidentiality when safety code violations pose a risk of injury to building occupants.
Temporal scope
Throughout the engagement and upon completion of the structural report
Relationships
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
Under the terms of the agreement with the client, the structural report written by Engineer A is to remain confidential
in view of the terms of the agreement, Engineer A does not report the safety violations to any third party
TTL
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case84:Engineer_A_Confidentiality_Agreement_Non-Excuse_Safety_Code_Violation_Reporting a proeth:ConfidentialityAgreementNon-ExcuseforKnownSafetyCodeViolationReportingObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Confidentiality Agreement Non-Excuse Safety Code Violation Reporting" ;
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-core:prevailsOver case84:Engineer_A_Section_III.4_Client-Transmitted_Confidentiality_Engagement_Recognition ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A operated under a confidentiality agreement requiring his structural report to remain confidential. He used this agreement to justify not reporting electrical and mechanical code violations to any third party, despite knowing those violations could injure occupants." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/84#Confidentiality_Agreement_Non-Supersession_—_Engineer_As_Contractual_Confidentiality_vs._Imminent_Danger>,
case84:Confidentiality_Non-Applicability_to_Public_Danger_Disclosure_Violated_By_Engineer_A ;
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 "Confidentiality Agreement Non-Excuse for Known Safety Code Violation Reporting Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to recognize that the confidentiality agreement with the client did not excuse him from reporting known electrical and mechanical code violations to appropriate public authorities, because the NSPE Code's paramount public welfare obligation supersedes contractual confidentiality when safety code violations pose a risk of injury to building occupants." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Under the terms of the agreement with the client, the structural report written by Engineer A is to remain confidential" ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the engagement and upon completion of the structural report" ;
proeth:textreferences "Under the terms of the agreement with the client, the structural report written by Engineer A is to remain confidential",
"in view of the terms of the agreement, Engineer A does not report the safety violations to any third party" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 84 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T13:56:58.168953"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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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
2026-03-01T13:56:58.168953
Generated by
ProEthica Case 84 Extraction