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Ethics & accountability · Calling out concerns to leadership

During a routine bridge inspection you find section loss and cracking in a fascia girder that your reading of the ratings suggests warrants a load posting, but your senior colleague who signs the report wants to downgrade it to "monitor" to avoid the political fallout of restricting the bridge. What do you do?

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This is a public-safety call, so "monitor" versus "post" isn't a matter of seniority courtesy — it has to be defensible on the numbers.

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