Subordinate Inspector Oversight and Defect Escalation Obligation
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7bd7db65
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SubordinateInspectorOversightandDefectEscalationObligation
Definition
Duty of an engineer intern or junior engineer serving in a supervisory capacity over field inspection technicians within a public infrastructure inspection program to actively review the work product of those technicians — including inspection reports and photographic records — for completeness and accuracy, and upon discovering that a technician has failed to report a visibly obvious defect, to immediately escalate the defect and the technician's non-reporting to the responsible licensed professional engineer, with full disclosure of all relevant facts including the duration and pattern of the failure.
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Subclass of
Definition
Duty of an engineer intern or junior engineer serving in a supervisory capacity over field inspection technicians within a public infrastructure inspection program to actively review the work product of those technicians — including inspection reports and photographic records — for completeness and accuracy, and upon discovering that a technician has failed to report a visibly obvious defect, to immediately escalate the defect and the technician's non-reporting to the responsible licensed professional engineer, with full disclosure of all relevant facts including the duration and pattern of the failure.
Source Evidence
Source Text
While reviewing the inspection report for a bridge, Engineer Intern A observed that an inspector under the supervision of Engineer Intern A had failed to report a visibly obvious defect in a concrete bridge member.
TTL
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rdfs:label "Subordinate Inspector Oversight and Defect Escalation Obligation" ;
rdfs:comment "Duty of an engineer intern or junior engineer serving in a supervisory capacity over field inspection technicians within a public infrastructure inspection program to actively review the work product of those technicians — including inspection reports and photographic records — for completeness and accuracy, and upon discovering that a technician has failed to report a visibly obvious defect, to immediately escalate the defect and the technician's non-reporting to the responsible licensed professional engineer, with full disclosure of all relevant facts including the duration and pattern of the failure." ;
rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SafetyObligation> .
Metadata
Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
7bd7db656b748827...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