Public Welfare Paramount Invoked By Engineer A In Occupied Building Safety Context
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/84#Public_Welfare_Paramount_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_In_Occupied_Building_Safety_Context
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Building occupants exposed to injury risk
Electrical and mechanical code violations in occupied apartment building
Balancing with
Confidentiality Principle
Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits
Loyalty
Concrete expression
Engineer A recognized that electrical and mechanical code violations in an occupied 60-year-old apartment building could cause injury to occupants, triggering the paramount public safety obligation that overrides the confidentiality agreement — but Engineer A failed to act on this obligation by not reporting to any third party
Confidence
0.97
Importance
high
Interpretation
The paramount public safety obligation required Engineer A to report the code violations to appropriate authorities and notify building occupants, notwithstanding the confidentiality agreement — the occupants' safety interest is the highest-priority obligation in the ethics code hierarchy
Invoked by
Engineer A
Tension resolution
Public welfare obligation should have overridden the confidentiality agreement per the ethics code's public safety exception clause — Engineer A's failure to make this determination constitutes an ethical violation
Source Evidence
Source text
he does realize those deficiencies could cause injury to the occupants of the building and so informs the client
Text references
Engineer A does not report the safety violations to any third party
he does realize those deficiencies could cause injury to the occupants of the building and so informs the client
TTL
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case84:Public_Welfare_Paramount_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_In_Occupied_Building_Safety_Context a proeth:PublicWelfareParamount,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Public Welfare Paramount Invoked By Engineer A In Occupied Building Safety Context" ;
proeth:appliedto "Building occupants exposed to injury risk",
"Electrical and mechanical code violations in occupied apartment building" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Confidentiality Principle",
"Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits",
"Loyalty" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A recognized that electrical and mechanical code violations in an occupied 60-year-old apartment building could cause injury to occupants, triggering the paramount public safety obligation that overrides the confidentiality agreement — but Engineer A failed to act on this obligation by not reporting to any third party" ;
proeth:confidence "0.97" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "84" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T13:37:05.727947+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "84" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T13:37:05.727947+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The paramount public safety obligation required Engineer A to report the code violations to appropriate authorities and notify building occupants, notwithstanding the confidentiality agreement — the occupants' safety interest is the highest-priority obligation in the ethics code hierarchy" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A" ;
proeth:principleclass "Public Welfare Paramount" ;
proeth:sourcetext "he does realize those deficiencies could cause injury to the occupants of the building and so informs the client" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Public welfare obligation should have overridden the confidentiality agreement per the ethics code's public safety exception clause — Engineer A's failure to make this determination constitutes an ethical violation" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A does not report the safety violations to any third party",
"he does realize those deficiencies could cause injury to the occupants of the building and so informs the client" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 84 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T13:56:58.150224"^^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
2026-03-01T13:37:05.727947+00:00
First case
84
Generated
2026-03-01T13:37:05.727947+00:00
Attributed to
Case 84 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T13:56:58.150224
Generated by
ProEthica Case 84 Extraction