Background: Industrial Workers' health behaviour includes habits or actions related to physical exercise, nutrition, smoking, and drug or alcohol consumption. Unhealthy behaviour, and especially alcohol consumption, has been considered a source of accidents and injuries among construction workers. However, unhealthy behaviour can also be seen as a result of the safety and risk conditions of these jobs. Methods: The purpose of this paper is to contrast the role of unhealthy behaviour as a source or as an outcome of safety and risk in the industrial sector. Data was collected from 180 workers belonging to a Industrial and construction company. Two path models representing these two hypotheses were tested. The model in which unhealthy behaviour is an antecedent of injuries did not fit the data (Chi square=73.798, df=3, p<0.001).