What Persec Services does

Persec Services is an Australian occupational violence and aggression (OVA) training provider headquartered in Melbourne and operating nationally across Australia, founded and led by Kev Perry, a practitioner with 30+ years of experience spanning policing, corporate training, and frontline response. The company serves organisations whose staff encounter aggression or pressured situations in public-facing roles, with healthcare, public transport, and community services identified as primary verticals and seven additional verticals — local government, retail and hospitality, education, construction, sport and events, infrastructure and utilities, and real estate — as secondary markets. Customer types range from named enterprise accounts (JCDecaux for frontline crew workshop delivery) to individual training participants, with the commercial centre of gravity on bespoke enterprise engagements.

The core offering is a five-program portfolio delivered through a four-stage methodology (Listen, Design, Deliver, Embed). Programs include Frontline de-escalation (a 2-day intensive for public-facing staff), OVA risk assessment workshop (a 1-day hybrid session for OH&S leads producing a written prevention plan), Personal safety skills (a 1-day practical program covering lawful disengagement techniques), Post-incident response for managers (a half-day online module covering first-24-hour protocols and escalation), and Custom in-house training (a bespoke program built against the client's incident and near-miss data). A 6-month refresher and coaching add-on provides monthly online modules plus on-demand debrief coaching with a manager dashboard and competency record keeping. Training is delivered in the client's actual work environment and incorporates physical skills components using matting, role-play partners, and protective equipment.

Revenue is generated through professional services engagements priced by scope on a multi-year contract basis; pricing is not publicly disclosed and is initiated through website consultation enquiries, direct phone, or email with a stated one business day response time. The firm is privately held (Persec Services Pty Ltd, ABN 79 289 145 739), founder-owned, has 5 employees, no institutional funding, no parent company, no disclosed partnerships, and no app, API, or software product surface. Marketing is content-led through a Resources library, Articles section, and Instagram, with the trademarked Persec wordmark and keyhole device as the registered brand identity.

Name

Persec Services

Legal name

Persec Services Pty Ltd

Website

https://persecservices.com.au

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Persec Services is a Melbourne-based, founder-led Australian training consultancy delivering practitioner-led, scenario-based occupational violence and aggression (OVA) programs primarily to healthcare, public transport, and community services organisations nationally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Workplace Safety Training

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Workplace Violence Prevention & Personal Safety (EDABAEAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

Active Threat / Workplace Violence Preparedness & Response (BPABANAJ)

Keywords

• Workplace safety training
• Occupational violence training
• De-escalation training
• OVA risk assessment
• Personal safety skills

Headquarters

HQ city

Melbourne

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Training and Consulting Services: Custom engagement-based training services delivered on-site at client facilities. Programs are scoped per engagement with pricing by scope. Engagements typically run 8-16 weeks from discovery to first delivery for custom programs. Includes six-month post-delivery support with refresher modules and incident debrief coaching.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Persec Services delivers custom occupational violence and aggression (OVA) training programs for Australian workplaces, built against each client's actual incident data and delivered on-site at their facilities. The portfolio includes frontline de-escalation, OVA risk assessment, personal safety skills, post-incident response for managers, and bespoke in-house engagements with six months of refresher and coaching support.

Product overview

Persec Services is an Australian provider of occupational violence and aggression (OVA) training delivered through practitioner-led, scenario-based programs. The core product portfolio consists of Frontline de-escalation (2-day intensive for public-facing staff), OVA risk assessment workshop (1-day hybrid for OH&S leads), Personal safety skills (1-day physical skills program), Post-incident response for managers (half-day online), and Custom in-house training (bespoke scoped engagement). Add-on modules include the 6-month refresher and coaching program, which provides ongoing skills retention through monthly online modules and on-demand debrief coaching. All programs are designed to be delivered in the client's actual work environment with scenario-based practice drawn from real incident data.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Frontline de-escalation A 2-day intensive in-person program for staff who deal with the public in pressured situations. Scenario-based training built around the specific incident data and real situations the staff actually encounter, with capacity up to 16 learners.
• OVA risk assessment workshop
• Personal safety skills
• Custom in-house training
• Post-incident response for managers
• 6-month refresher & coaching

Quantifiable outcome

• Skills retained through six-month refreshers and incident debrief coaching rather than fading after initial training

Named customers4 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• SafetyCulture: Australian-headquartered safety and operations platform with inspection, audit and training capabilities. Overlaps with Persec at the workplace safety / training layer but operates as a broad incumbent platform rather than a specialist OVA training firm.
• EdApp: Mobile-first microlearning platform (part of SafetyCulture) used to deploy workplace safety training at scale. A potential substitute for Persec's six-month refresher layer, especially for cost-sensitive buyers.
• St John Ambulance Australia: National first aid and workplace safety training organisation with deep Australian enterprise relationships. A broader incumbent that competes for the same WHS training budget but does not specialise in OVA scenario-based training.

Regional players

• Konekt: Australian workplace health, injury prevention and return-to-work services provider. Regional peer serving overlapping enterprise customers with adjacent (rather than identical) WHS services.

Direct peers

• Vivid Learning Systems: Workplace safety and health training provider offering scenario-based safety content for high-risk industries. Comparable to Persec in target buyer (safety leads) and emphasis on behaviour-changing safety training rather than pure compliance.
• ALICE Training Institute: US-headquartered provider of active-threat and workplace violence preparedness training for schools, healthcare and corporate clients. Directly comparable to Persec's personal safety skills and active-threat preparedness offering.
• AlertForce: Australian OHS and workplace safety training provider covering manual handling, first aid and related compliance topics. Competes with Persec for the same Australian OH&S lead buyer, though with a broader and more compliance-oriented curriculum.
• Crisis Prevention Institute: Global specialist in workplace violence, de-escalation and crisis intervention training, with a practitioner-led certification model. Closest direct competitor to Persec in the OVA / de-escalation training category, particularly across healthcare and community services.
• Strategos International: Workplace violence, security and protective skills training consultancy serving corporate, healthcare and government clients. Comparable practitioner-led methodology and similar custom, scenario-based delivery model.

Emerging players

• PeopleSafe (Pulsara): Australian lone-worker safety monitoring and duress-alert provider. Adjacent rather than directly competing — addresses a pain point (lone worker safety) that Persec trains on but does so via technology rather than training delivery.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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