Complete and Unfiltered Upward Reporting Obligation
Class
323e6405
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CompleteandUnfilteredUpwardReportingObligation
Definition
Duty of a licensed engineer intern or subordinate engineer who discovers and reports a safety deficiency to communicate all material facts to the supervising licensed professional engineer — including not only the current defect but also any historical pattern of missed inspections, prior non-reporting, or systemic failures that bear on the severity, duration, and root cause of the identified risk — without omitting information that would materially alter the supervisor's understanding of the situation or the appropriate corrective response.
Properties
Subclass of
Definition
Duty of a licensed engineer intern or subordinate engineer who discovers and reports a safety deficiency to communicate all material facts to the supervising licensed professional engineer — including not only the current defect but also any historical pattern of missed inspections, prior non-reporting, or systemic failures that bear on the severity, duration, and root cause of the identified risk — without omitting information that would materially alter the supervisor's understanding of the situation or the appropriate corrective response.
Scope Note
[Case 57] Professional principle requiring engineers and engineering interns who discover and report a safety deficiency to communicate all material facts bearing on that deficiency to their supervisor — including facts that reveal systemic failures, duration of neglect, or aggravating circumstances — rather than reporting only the immediate defect while omitting contextual information that would materially affect the supervisor's assessment of severity, urgency, and appropriate response
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer Intern A reported the defect to Engineer B but did not report the fact that the defect had been visibly obvious for at least five years.
TTL
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
323e640583566b1b...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
57
Discovered In Pass
2
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-25T21:21:22.784141+00:00
First Discovered In Case
57
Generated
2026-02-25T21:21:22.784141+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 57 Extraction