There is growing demand for a clearer understanding of whether precarious work is a social determinant of health(1?5) and whether non-standard workers with less job security are more vulnerable to adverse safety and healthoutcomes. In their systematic review published in the current issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Work Environ-ment and Health, Koranyi et al (6) define “precarious employment” as a multidimensional set of unfavorable workcharacteristics experienced in various degrees by workers with the common denominator of loss of security insome domain. Their review makes an important contribution to this area by summarizing the existing scientificresearch on the relationship between precarious work and risk of occupational injury.
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