Behavioral threats may emerge during workplace interactions, visitor access, employee disputes, or interactions with contractors and vendors. Through our observation training, we equip security professionals to identify pre-incident behaviors, including those associated with individuals carrying weapons, enabling earlier and more appropriate intervention.
Prevention improves when personnel responsible for safety can consistently recognize meaningful behavioral deviations using a structured, repeatable observation process and clearly articulate why a situation warranted attention—before situations escalate into safety incidents affecting employees, operations, or organizational reputation.
Security Training
Turning Awareness into Professional Judgment
Incidents with the greatest operational, legal, and reputational consequences often begin as subtle behavioral deviations—changes in demeanor, agitation, interpersonal conflict, or unusual activity—that may be overlooked in busy workplace environments.
Second Sight training helps security professionals recognize concerning behavior earlier and ensure that they can interpret and act on behavioral indicators before situations escalate into a safety incidents.
A STRUCTURED REPEATABLE SKILL
Strengthens systematic observation skills across workplace environments
IDENTIFY THE TRUE THREAT
Distinguishing benign workplace behavior from deviations that may signal emerging concerns.
SPOT SIGNS OF VIOLENCE
Recognize behaviors associated with individuals carrying weapons or preparing for potential violence, enabling earlier intervention and a more informed response.
REFINED ARTICULATION
Improve clarity in communication across teams and defensibility in incident documentation and reporting
Online Observation Training Available for Security Professionals
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Situational Awareness for Safety
$50 Per Participant | 1-Hour Course
This course equips learners with a structured, teachable observation process that enables them to systematically observe their environments and recognize early behavioral deviations that signal emerging safety concerns.
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Threat Observation
$199 Per Participant | 4-Hour Course
This course equips learners with a research-validated, structured, repeatable observation process that strengthens systematic observation skills to identify behavioral threats. Participants will be able to distinguish benign behavior from deviations that may signal emerging concerns.
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Threat Awareness for Security Professionals
$299 Per Participant | 8-Hour Program
This program equips learners with a comprehensive system for identifying early indicators of risk, assessing threat levels through visible behaviors, and articulating defensible decisions before situations escalate.
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Threat Awareness in Practice
$40 | 45-Minute Course
This is an online refresher course designed to help learners review key concepts and practice their active threat assessment skills. Designed for graduates of either 8-hour Threat Awareness program.
Investigative Interview Training
Investigative interviews in security and corporate investigations depend on more than experience and instinct—they require systematic planning, strategic use of evidence, and the ability to maintain rapport while challenging inconsistencies in a subject's account. Without a structured approach, investigators risk collecting irrelevant information, disclosing evidence too early, losing credibility assessment opportunities, or making decisions that are difficult to defend.
We provide research-based investigative interviewing programs that provide structured approaches for professionals responsible for gathering information, evaluating evidence, and clearly articulating their decisions during formal investigations.
See How Security Professionals Apply Their Training
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“As a security professional, the techniques discussed in this program will directly contribute to the overall safety of our employees, contractors, visitors, assets, and the company's image. Being able to target possible threats and articulate the reasoning for targeting individuals will be greatly beneficial to overall safety and reputation.”
-Threat Awareness for Security Professionals | Security Analyst in Corporate Security
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“This training will allow me to better observe our guests and employees. This training provided me with a totally different outlook on how I previously monitored guests and traffic within our facilities.”
-Threat Observation | Security Manager in Gaming and Hospitality
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“I feel I have added tools in detecting weapons and contraband possession. For executive protection in crowded areas — while not routine, we do perform this task — my detection of persons of interest is stronger now. Sooner or later, one of these situations ends up in civil or criminal court, and being able to professionally describe the process is essential.”
-Threat Awareness for Security Professionals | Executive Protection Professional
Frequently Asked Questions
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Second Sight offers two security training options: the Observation and Visual Threat Detection Training Path and a standalone Interview Planning and Credibility Assessment program for security investigators. The Observation and Visual Threat Detection Training Path includes the Threat Observation course and the Threat Awareness for Security Professionals program, followed by the Threat Awareness Refresher course.
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Participants will be able to apply a structured, repeatable observation and visual threat detection process to establish behavioral baselines, identify meaningful behavioral deviations, and make defensible safety decisions, including documentation appropriate for organizational reporting and review.
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Yes. Our security courses and programs are grounded in validated behavioral research, including the Department of Defense-funded Just Doesn't Look Right project conducted by the Naval Research Laboratory, and have been delivered to thousands of security, military, and law enforcement professionals nationally and internationally since 2015.
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Yes. Multi-license purchasing is available to organizations, along with monthly enrollment-tracking reports for administrators. Instructor-led delivery is also available for teams that want facilitated in-person training.
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Our security courses and programs are designed for corporate security teams, gaming and hospitality security, healthcare security, houses of worship security, executive protection professionals, loss prevention professionals, and others in private and institutional security roles whose responsibilities involve public-facing observation, safety decision-making, or formal investigative interviews.
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No. Second Sight's observation and visual threat detection training is distinct from behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) and predictive threat identification approaches. Our training teaches a structured observation process grounded in validated behavioral research — not a threat assessment protocol.
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Yes. The Threat Observation course and Threat Awareness for Security Professionals program are available in both self-paced online and instructor-led formats. The Interview Planning and Credibility Assessment course is currently available only in an instructor-led format.