Unsafe Process Refusing Industrial Engineer
Class
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#UnsafeProcessRefusingIndustrialEngineer
Definition
A professional engineering role in which a group of engineers, believing that certain machinery or industrial processes are unsafe, exercise their ethical right to refuse participation in the processing or production of the product in question, accepting the likely consequence of loss of employment as the cost of upholding their professional obligation to public safety.
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Definition
A professional engineering role in which a group of engineers, believing that certain machinery or industrial processes are unsafe, exercise their ethical right to refuse participation in the processing or production of the product in question, accepting the likely consequence of loss of employment as the cost of upholding their professional obligation to public safety.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] A professional engineering role in which an engineer, believing a product to be unsafe, is ethically justified in refusing to participate in the processing or production of that product, even at the risk of loss of employment, as long as the engineer holds that view regarding the product's safety.
Source Evidence
Source Text
a group of engineers believed that certain machinery was unsafe
TTL
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Content Hash
24efa4d62c7c6f8b...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
92
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-03-01T13:33:59.525663+00:00
First Discovered In Case
92
Generated
2026-03-01T13:33:59.525663+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 92 Extraction