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The South Australian Opposition will move to defeat the State Work Health and Safety Bill, rather than push for amendments as originally planned, when debate on the legislation resumes in Parliament today.

An unfair dismissal case, involving a worker sacked for theft, has uncovered deficiencies in a South Australian employer's forklift-licence regime that left it unable to prove an OHS breach was serious misconduct.

A South Australian Baptist school that failed to act on expert recommendations to remove a dying tree has been fined nearly $110,000, after a parent sustained crippling injuries. Also in this article, an employer has been fined after a worker who was warned about his risky behaviour was injured.

In this update, OHS Alert outlines all the important OHS and workers' compensation legislative changes made in the final quarter of 2011. We also recap the most significant court and tribunal rulings and other developments in each jurisdiction.

South Australian tribunal dismisses lunchtime-injury claim; Workplace fatality rates fluctuating; Western Australian employer handed record safety fine over security guard injury; and Global search for national rail safety boss begins.

Workplaces in the five OHS jurisdictions where harmonised safety laws have taken effect are now safer and more productive, according to Federal Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten. But stakeholders continue to squabble over the draft model Codes of Practice.

Five jurisdictions will be ready to enact a harmonised Work Health and Safety Act by the end of the month, and three further model Codes of Practice have been endorsed, according to a communiqué on Safe Work Australia's latest members meeting.

A worker who initiated dozens of court actions relating to injuries and other issues against his former employer, Mitsubishi Motors, has failed in his appeal against Federal Court orders declaring him a vexatious litigant.

In a day of mixed fortunes for harmonisation advocates yesterday, the Northern Territory Work Health and Safety Bill passed through Parliament, while the Tasmanian Upper House voted to delay the implementation of its mirror laws for 12 months.

Harmonisation trailblazer South Australia is likely to be one of the last jurisdictions to implement a Work Health and Safety Act, after the Legislative Council heard claims the new laws could increase the cost of housing, and voted to defer the debate on them until February next year.