Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research Vol. 78, March 2019, pp. 154-157 Benefits and Risks of Green Jobs in the Construction Industry L Cardoso 1 *, N Araujo 2 , J A Fraiz Brea 2 and J Diéguez-Soto 3 *1 Lusofona University, Porto, Portugal 2 Faculty of Business and Tourism, University of Vigo, Ourense, Spain 3 University of Malaga, 29071 Malaga, Spain Received 13 May 2018; revised 16 November 2018; accepted 27 January 2019 Green jobs have been introduced in different industries and sectors as a result of the current sustainable trend. These seek both social and environmental improvements, while its implementation generates new jobs. The construction industry has been the first specific sector of the economy that was addressed in the Green Jobs initiative of the International Labor Organization (ILO). But not all are benefits, as the use of new recyclable materials, new more ecological designs or new work processes, generate new occupational hazards. For this reason, in order to know the benefits and risks presented by green construction, this work carries out in the first place a bibliometric analysis of the works published between 2014 and 2018 on this subject, and then, a deductive content analysis. Keywords: Green Jobs, Green Construction, Benefits, Risks, Bibliometric Analysis Introduction Green jobs help preserve the environment for current and future generations. Therefore, green growth and clean development favors both the environment and economic development 1 . In addition, it affects other variables, such as employment 2 , the environment 3 , recycling 4 or energy 5 ; the International Labor Organization (ILO) has come to the conclusion that the green economy could create more than twenty-four million new jobs worldwide by the year 2030 if the right policies are put in place. Green jobs contribute to preserve and restore the environment, be it in traditional sectors such as agriculture or construction or in new emerging sectors such as renewable energy and energy efficiency. Focusing on the industry that is the object of this work, construction was the first specific sector of the economy that was addressed in the Green Jobs initiative of the ILO. This sector concentrates from 25% to 40% of the use of energy in the world, and from 30% to 40% of the total emissions of greenhouse gases 3 . New materials and techniques with application to the building industry are constantly being developed 4,5 and the construction is one of the human activities that has the most impact on the environment and our health since we spend most of our lives inside buildings. Although the occupational accidents in the construction sector decreased significantly in recent years, it remains one of the highest compared to other sectors. Due to the evolution towards a more respectful environmental model, sustainable construction was described as a scenario of emerging risks. In order to fall into the category of "green jobs" in the construction industry, it will be necessary to obtain training to know how and with what to build in a "green" way, always with the purpose of conserving energy and water, reducing waste, eliminating toxic chemicals and preserving workers’ safety 6,7 . Methodology Data source Data was collected from Scopus databases, from 2014 to 2018 for more recent data, following a bibliometric analysis 8,9 . To that end, we searched for all records that contained ―green construction‖, ―benefits + green construction‖, ―risk + green construction‖ and ―disadvantages + green construction‖ and this approach produced a documentary corpus of 5865 articles (Table 1). Given the wide scope of the articles, we opted to fine tune the search and we got thus a total of 972 articles, of which, after filtering by the title, keywords and abstract of the article, 67 were considered optimal for the investigation. Data analysis The data analysis comprises 2 methods, namely bibliometric analysis and deductive content analysis: 1) —————— *Author for Correspondence E-mail: lucyalves.lucilia@gmail.com