Aviation safety affects everybody from governments, passengers, industry, freight companies and academic community. Over the years, aviation has been the safest mode of transport in the world but each casualty in air travel is entirely too many. This paper reviews the economic literature relating to aviation safety; examines aviation security as a growing dimension of aviation safety; and identifies emerging issues in airline safety and challenges for aviation safety research. Aviation safety needs to improve significantly, as the global population depends on an efficient and safe commercial network.
Many industries consider the use of simulator techniques as a major contributing factor to the fundamental increase of competency. The Aviation industry is one remarkableexample that motivated the first attempts to manufacture ship bridge simulation. Maritime institutes and centers tended to provide training courses which are based on technical and procedural skills relevant to ships operations. This paper reviews the importance of the use of simulation techniques in the development of the skills of marine officer’s onboard ships and the extent of their impact in enhancing the efficiency of masters and navigation officers. In addition to the review the importance of the development of social and cognitive skills training courses in a bid to provide an outline for future research, to look at how the context of training and simulation of social and cognitive skills for officers of ships which affects the successful development of these skills.