Although I felt the course was adequate for training purposes there were a few items which made a negative impact on my learning experiece: The course tutor tended to waffle during sections and too many anecdotes affected my concentration levels. While some can be key to learning, too many could be seen as just making a lot of conversation when you could be covering more course material. The course tutor awkwardly made a point of stopping one conversation regarding factory equipment. My colleague - with whom I did the training - were asked by the course tutor to "let us know when you don't know what we're talking about" because we were "ladies". My colleague and I were able to follow the conversation adequately and while are work is not in an industrial setting, there were other course attendees who were male and not joining in conversation like us who did not receive this reference. I found it to be quite unsettling. Overall I found the course to be very male dominated and made to feel self-conscious of my gender and abilty.