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Employers have been reminded of their WHS duty to take all reasonably practicable steps to protect workers from COVID-19, after ACTU polling found many workplaces still don't have proper social distancing, PPE and cleaning protocols. Meanwhile, the UK's work safety regulator has issued social distancing tips for distribution centres and other sites.

• Work injury and safety changes made by Vic COVID-19 Bill; and
  
• SIRA updates COVID-19 work injury toll and certificate rules.

The moral distress essential workers experience from being unable to fulfil their duties and obligations properly in the COVID-19 pandemic can develop into mental health problems like PTSD, anxiety and depression if unsupported, according to UK researchers.

An employer has been ordered to reinstate an injured worker, pending the outcome of his disability discrimination claim, so he can maintain a connection to employment and access JobKeeper payments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Employers have been urged to resist intensifying work demands or ramping up surveillance of workers working at home because of COVID-19, to avoid worsening the mental health challenges already posed by the pandemic. Meanwhile, Tasmania has released a pandemic planning guide for workplaces.

• More than 150 COVID-19 work injury claims lodged in NSW;
  
• SWA weighs in on cleaning regimes for COVID-19; and
  
• Workplace wellness programs crucial for self-isolating staff.

• Step up workplace cleaning for COVID-19 pandemic;
  
• More work-related COVID-19 developments from around the country; and
  
• Employer and director face more dangerous goods charges.

• Qantas rejects COVID-19 claims as 750 staff told to self-isolate;
  
• COVID-19 work injury Bills introduced in SA; and
  
• Did you miss our latest quarterly update and coronavirus coverage?

Determining liability for COVID-19 cases will involve a wide range of challenges, including where an employer has induced or encouraged workers to be somewhere where they are at risk of infection, or a worker has contracted the virus while working from home, according to one of Aon's WHS leaders.

• Employer fined $300k over disabling gas explosion;
  
• Average injury premium rate cut for "uncertain" times in WA; and
  
• Standards directory guides shift to essential products in pandemic.