I have had experience with CDM Cs sending out safety bulletins to PCs

Every Feb/March I send a bulletin to clients and PCs telling them that HSE inspectors are having a blitz on small construction sites, and yes, there was a bulletin earlier this month but I can't find the link right now! As well a CDM-C I am usually acting as a site safety advisor too on the small sites I deal with, so they also get reminders about site safety rules, outcome of scaffold inspections...... and more CDM-Cish: reminders that I need to know if any 'new' contractors are coming on site - they sometimes change their mind who'll be the roofer or electrician and don't tell me, or the contractor sends in a subby or a junior lad who hasn't had induction or competence review....... so I let them know firmly when that has happened and I'm not happy!

It is not a CDMC's role to give out general safety information so I say let the CDMC get on with their own job and the client should ensure that the PC manages; which will include the issue of such info by the PC and or a H&S adviser commissioned by either the client or the PC I too act as a CDMC however from a H&S view if the H&S areas are given to others soon there will be no H&S advisers as others will be doing their work for them

stedman, CDM-C involvement should not end when the project work starts. Paragraph 90 says things like 'promptly provide in a convenient form to those involved with the design of the structure; and to every contractor (including the principal contractor) who may be or has been appointed by the client, such parts of the pre-construction information which are relevant to each' so to do that the CDM-C needs to be aware if any new contractors or inexperienced subbys are getting involved in a project. How he achieves that awareness depends on how closely he keeps in touch with project activities and with the PC and Client (who may overlook new contractors on site). If there's a problem then the CDM-C needs to communicate that to everyone. Also para 90 says 'manage the flow of health and safety information between clients, designers and contractors' and this is in mainly in pre-construction planning, but there may be design changes AFTER construction work has started, and 'CDM co-ordinators who identify important health and safety issues that have not been addressed in the design must draw them to the attention of the designer. (ACoP). The CDM-C should not supervise implementation of the construction phase plan nor monitor construction work but he needs to know what may have changed, and he should then communicate anything important.

Judging by the replies so far I get the feeling that to go the extra mile and provide information that is not part of the requirement of CDM C would be the wrong thing to do? Am I right? If so would there be consequences if something went wrong following receipt of that type of information? Could/would the CDM C be criticised in a court of law for overstepping the mark?