text: **Domestic work**is work performed within households to provide services mainly for consumption by 
  household members. Domestic workers perform household and personal services in one or more 
  different homes.87**Approximately 9.5 million people**work as domestic workers, 6.3 million declared 
  and approximately 3.5 million undeclared.88 In general these workers suffer from precarious working 
  and employment conditions. EU-OSHA described — based on the opinion of sector experts — the 
  biggest deficits regarding technical support for better working conditions as follows: 
  
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  ‘*PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) : that covers a large number of conditions encountered*
  *by PHS (Personal and Household Services) workers and intended to prevent possible*
  *occupational accidents in the sector;*
  
  •*Equipment: that meets ergonomic requirements and increases work efficiency;*
  •*Products: taking into account medical health (skin disorders, lung problems, etc.), the*
  *environment and the effectiveness of products’.*89 
  
  **Care work in private homes**can be a mixture of short-term and repeated mobile work at the home of 
  clients but also fully residential at the home of the care receiver. Of all care workers, 71% worked in 
  residential care and 29% worked in non 
  residential care, that is, they worked at the homes of the care 
  receiver; 81% of all care workers are female. The number of care workers grew from 4.7 million in 2009 
  to 6.3 million in 2019 and made up 3.2% of the entire EU workforce in 2019, ranging from 0.3% in 
  Greece to 7.1% in Sweden.90 Twenty-nine per cent of these 6.3 million care workers do their work at 
  the clients’ places, this makes roughly 1.8 million workers. 
  
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