The main purpose of the study is to form a methodological approach to modeling the process of forming a safety potential for engineering enterprises. The main method used was the method of multi-criteria assessment of alternatives and the matrix of paired comparisons. An assessment was made of alternative options for ensuring the security of the potential of engineering enterprises for different resource requirements. The study has certain limitations related to the fact that the data and enterprises that were used relate to the engineering ones of Eastern Europe. The results of calculating a rational option for ensuring the safety potential of engineering enterprises for different needs in material, financial, personnel and organizational resources by the method of multi-criteria assessment of alternatives can be used in the future to improve monitoring in practice. The main issues considered during the study were to determine the security potential of the engineering company, to determine the resources needed to ensure the security potential. This methodology allows through comparison of certain indicators or indicators, to determine which management decision is most appropriate to the existing situation. The value of the study lies in the formation of a scientific and practical approach to the formation of the safety potential of engineering enterprises, the use of which, in contrast to the existing ones, is based on the use of methods for multi-criteria assessment of alternatives and a matrix of paired comparisons for the advantage of options.