Following the incident, the government, through an Inter-Agency Anti-Arson Task Force, is conducting investigation. To date, however, labor rights advocates are still waiting for a definitive report on the actual events. What is clear at this point, from SALIGAN’s perspective, is the fact that there would not have been a tragedy of this scale has proper Occupational Safety and Health Standards (OSHS) been observed...The lack of an Omnibus Regulation that would harmonize all rules and roles regarding OSHS is...apparent... SALIGAN is further recommending the Philippine government’s ratification of ILO Convention No. 187 on Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention (2006), which aims to establish and implement coherent national policies on occupational health and safety through dialogue between government, workers, and employers’ organizations to promote a national preventive safety and health culture, and ILO Convention No. 155 on Occupational Safety and Health Convention (1981) and its Protocol of 2012, which calls for the establishment and the periodic review of requirements and procedures for the recording and notification of occupational accidents and diseases and for the publication of related statistics.