Bring Shattered to Your Community
Workplace injury reaches beyond the workplace
When work changes a life, what happens next?
Shattered is an independent Australian documentary series bringing together the experiences and perspectives of injured workers, families, health professionals and employers.
Through personal stories, professional insights and social history, it explores how injury can affect health, relationships, livelihoods and belonging and how the response people receive can shape what follows.
Some describe being shunned or losing connection when they most needed support. Together, these perspectives help us understand the experience of injury and the challenges of providing care and supporting recovery.
By listening, we can challenge stigma and consider how workplaces and communities can respond with greater care.
Our national community screening tour begins in February 2027. We invite community groups, chambers of commerce, service clubs and local businesses to host or sponsor a screening.
Help your community watch, listen and understand.
Almost half a million people in one year
In 2021–22 an estimated 497,300 Australians experienced a work-related injury or illness.*
Preventing injury is a shared priority. When someone is injured, employers, colleagues and families all have a role in supporting what happens next.
Each person has a life beyond their job. For those facing serious or lasting injury, relationships, financial security and family life can change too.
How can employers and employees stay connected? What support might families need? How can the wider community help?
Through personal stories and social history, Shattered brings these experiences into view—helping us understand one another and respond with greater care.
A community conversation about what happens next
Across Australia, memorials honour people who have lost their lives at work. They give communities places to remember and stand beside families.
We also need opportunities to hear from people living with serious workplace injury, and the families beside them.
Their experiences form part of our shared social history: the work people did, the harm they experienced, how they were treated and what followed.
A community screening creates space to listen, question assumptions and understand experiences that might otherwise remain unseen. It can help us recognise exclusion, challenge stigma and consider what practical care and connection look like locally.
Community groups, chambers of commerce, service clubs and local businesses can help bring these stories to a wider audience.
Watch. Understand. Connect.
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Understand how injury can affect family life, relationships, livelihood and belonging.
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Hear experiences that are often missing from public discussion.
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Explore how employers and employees can maintain respectful connection after injury.
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Consider what practical support friends, neighbours and community groups can offer.
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Help challenge stigma and build confidence responding with care.
Shattered’s focus on workplace culture, respectful communication and belonging aligns with Safe Work Australia’s guidance on reducing workers’ compensation stigma. Through personal stories, expert insight and social history, the series invites employers, employees, families and communities to consider how their everyday responses can make a difference after injury.
A National Conversation Begins Locally
Bring Shattered to your community as part of our 2027 tour.
Host a screening through your organisation, or help make one possible by sponsoring agreed costs such as the screening licence or venue.
You can host, sponsor or do both.
Bring employers, employees, families and neighbours together to watch, listen and consider what support can look like locally.
Could your community be next?
Host or sponsor a Shattered screening in 2027.
Contact us to explore the options. You do not need a confirmed date or venue to enquire.
EXPLORE YOUR SCREENING OPTIONS
