text: way by OSH legislation or OSH practice. The principle of employer responsibility for working conditions 
  of workers is undermined or at least blurred in such situations. 
  
  Future solutions could focus on several aspects — a**new definition of ‘work’ or of ‘employment’,**
  **stronger individual responsibility, or extended state interventions to guarantee OSH**also in such 
  working and employment conditions. There are some examples of such solutions but to date most of 
  them focus on better information, that is, stronger individual responsibility. 
  
  **Undeclared and illegal employment is scarcely visible**in the statistics. Due to the difficult conditions 
  for research, the overall OSH situation in these types of work is widely unknown; in case study-based 
  investigative studies, the working conditions — including safety and health — for this group are mostly 
  regarded as worse compared to workers with a regular work contract. It seems to be necessary to 
  consider different research and action initiatives for this type of work, also in collaboration with other 
  state supervising authorities. 
  
  The health data clearly show an ever-growing**share of work tasks that go along with or even require**
  **physical inactivity**. Inactive work is often characterised by permanent sitting combined with high 
  requirements for visual and mental focusing during work, for example, towards digital equipment or to 
  traffic situations. Serious indirect health consequences of such inactivity can be seen in the strong 
  increase in certain widespread diseases or disease-supporting factors, like obesity. 