Post-Employment Safety Concern Witness Participation State
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81d989d1
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Post-EmploymentSafetyConcernWitnessParticipationState
Definition
State in which a professional engineer who previously identified and internally escalated a safety concern during employment — and whose recommendation was rejected by the employer — has since resigned and is now considering participating as a witness at a public regulatory or standards-setting hearing directly related to that safety concern, creating a context in which the engineer's prior insider knowledge, professional obligation to protect public safety, and post-employment confidentiality obligations must be balanced against the public benefit of their testimony.
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Definition
State in which a professional engineer who previously identified and internally escalated a safety concern during employment — and whose recommendation was rejected by the employer — has since resigned and is now considering participating as a witness at a public regulatory or standards-setting hearing directly related to that safety concern, creating a context in which the engineer's prior insider knowledge, professional obligation to protect public safety, and post-employment confidentiality obligations must be balanced against the public benefit of their testimony.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Later, Engineer A resigns from Company X
TTL
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Ontology
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Content Hash
81d989d11f4b1998...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
142
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-27T22:54:36.599466+00:00
First Discovered In Case
142
Generated
2026-02-27T22:54:36.599466+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 142 Extraction