Supervisor-Directed Regulatory Notification Suppression for Business Retention State
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76abac68
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Supervisor-DirectedRegulatoryNotificationSuppressionforBusinessRetentionState
Definition
State in which a supervising engineer explicitly directs a subordinate to withhold mandatory regulatory notification of a suspected or confirmed hazardous condition — substituting only a vague client advisory ('questionable material') — where the stated or implied rationale is preservation of an existing business relationship with the client, thereby placing both the supervisor and subordinate in potential violation of federal and state environmental reporting laws and professional ethics obligations.
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Definition
State in which a supervising engineer explicitly directs a subordinate to withhold mandatory regulatory notification of a suspected or confirmed hazardous condition — substituting only a vague client advisory ('questionable material') — where the stated or implied rationale is preservation of an existing business relationship with the client, thereby placing both the supervisor and subordinate in potential violation of federal and state environmental reporting laws and professional ethics obligations.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] State in which a professional engineer employed in a public-sector or institutional role has identified a legally reportable condition (e.g., overflow capacity violations requiring state water pollution control authority notification) and has been explicitly warned or directed by an immediate supervisor to suppress or redirect that reporting — channeling it only through the supervisor rather than to the legally required external authority — creating a direct conflict between the engineer's legal and ethical reporting obligations and the supervisor's directive, and making the engineer potentially complicit in an ongoing legal violation if the engineer complies with the suppression directive.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer B tells Technician A only to document the existence of the samples
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
76abac68441d0ec6...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
149
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-03-01T12:14:18.092113+00:00
First Discovered In Case
149
Generated
2026-03-01T12:14:18.092113+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 149 Extraction