Engineer A Cost-Pressure Safety Recommendation Abandonment Violation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/89#Engineer_A_Cost-Pressure_Safety_Recommendation_Abandonment_Violation
Properties
Instance of
Cost-PressureSafetyRecommendationAbandonmentProhibitionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Cost-PressureSafetyRecommendationAbandonmentProhibitionObligation
Case context
Engineer A identified the construction phase as potentially dangerous and recommended a full-time on-site representative; the client refused citing cost; Engineer A proceeded with the project without the recommended safety measure.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to refrain from abandoning the safety recommendation for a full-time on-site project representative and proceeding with the project after the client refused on cost grounds, as doing so subordinated the paramount public welfare obligation to the client's economic concerns.
Temporal scope
Upon the client's cost-driven refusal to hire the full-time on-site representative, and continuing throughout the project
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
Because of the potentially dangerous nature of implementing the design during the construction phase, Engineer A recommends to the client that a full-time, on-site project representative be hired for the project.
Text references
After reviewing the completed project plans and costs, the client indicates to Engineer A that the project would be too costly if such a representative were hired.
Because of the potentially dangerous nature of implementing the design during the construction phase, Engineer A recommends to the client that a full-time, on-site project representative be hired for the project.
Engineer A proceeds with his work on the project.
TTL
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case89:Engineer_A_Cost-Pressure_Safety_Recommendation_Abandonment_Violation a proeth:Cost-PressureSafetyRecommendationAbandonmentProhibitionObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Cost-Pressure Safety Recommendation Abandonment Violation" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case89:Client_Economic_Interest_Displacing_Engineer_Primary_Safety_Obligation ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case89:Passive_Acquiescence_Independent_Ethical_Failure_Engineer_A_On-Site_Representative_Refusal ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A identified the construction phase as potentially dangerous and recommended a full-time on-site representative; the client refused citing cost; Engineer A proceeded with the project without the recommended safety measure." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case89:Engineer_Pressure_Resistance_Invoked_Against_Client_Cost-Based_Override_of_Safety_Judgment,
case89:Engineer_Pressure_Resistance_Invoked_Against_Engineer_A_Yielding_to_Client_Cost_Objection,
case89:Professional_Judgment_Abandonment_Under_Cost_Pressure_Invoked_Against_Engineer_A ;
proeth:discoveredincase "89" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T18:10:57.098840+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "89" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T18:10:57.098840+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Cost-Pressure Safety Recommendation Abandonment Prohibition Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to refrain from abandoning the safety recommendation for a full-time on-site project representative and proceeding with the project after the client refused on cost grounds, as doing so subordinated the paramount public welfare obligation to the client's economic concerns." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Because of the potentially dangerous nature of implementing the design during the construction phase, Engineer A recommends to the client that a full-time, on-site project representative be hired for the project." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon the client's cost-driven refusal to hire the full-time on-site representative, and continuing throughout the project" ;
proeth:textreferences "After reviewing the completed project plans and costs, the client indicates to Engineer A that the project would be too costly if such a representative were hired.",
"Because of the potentially dangerous nature of implementing the design during the construction phase, Engineer A recommends to the client that a full-time, on-site project representative be hired for the project.",
"Engineer A proceeds with his work on the project." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 89 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T18:38:27.061040"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 89 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
89
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T18:10:57.098840+00:00
First case
89
Generated
2026-03-01T18:10:57.098840+00:00
Attributed to
Case 89 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T18:38:27.061040
Generated by
ProEthica Case 89 Extraction