The phrase "affirmative responsibility" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing moral or legal obligations that are explicitly stated or confirmed.
Example: "The organization has an affirmative responsibility to ensure the safety of its employees."
Alternatives: "explicit duty" or "clear obligation".
You have an affirmative responsibility to speak out about anything questionable, or unethical, you know about.
"But we have an affirmative responsibility to ensure that what is learned will be useful for all populations.
For example, the Government both provides a grace period and bears an affirmative responsibility to prevent escheat in the distribution of funds to which enrolled members of the Peoria Tribe are statutorily entitled under 84 Stat.
Educators and employers are constantly yelling that you young people have an affirmative responsibility not to post anything where a teacher or principal or, worst of all, boss or potential boss might find it, which gets the ethics of the situation precisely backwards.
We must insist that government have an affirmative responsibility to ensure that those seeking decent-paying jobs find them.
Absent the regulatory mechanism of the PIB, a state arguably has an affirmative responsibility to ensure that the PCMF with which it is contracting is performing its contract in accordance with international law.
One's affirmative responsibilities are all conditioned by circumstances, and mostly are (conditional) implications of the Golden Rule of doing to or for others what you would wish them to do to or for you.
*Indicates an affirmative response.
Reasonable accommodation to needs such as these is the Institute's affirmative action responsibility under the law.
As part of that process, an Air Force contracting officer had to make an "affirmative determination of responsibility," taking into account the company's record of integrity and business ethics, government guidelines show.
The response was affirmative.
