The article sets the task of developing methods to enhance the safety of drilling operations. The methods should be based on the relationship of technical measures for the mechanization and automation of drilling operations and the level of their safe performance. The measures being developed at oil producing companies to improvement of labor protection conditions and improvement of the labor protection system of most oil producing companies show that the development of such measures does not at all touch upon the issues of enhancing the level of safety during oil production technological processes. Therefore, the task is to maximize the mechanization and automation of these types of work during well drilling in order to increase the safety of their production. Thus, a conceptual approach has been identified for solving the posed problem of increasing the safety of technological processes of oil production. A model has been developed for assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of work safety using a systematic approach to describing the work safety model.