Electrical equipment that can be easily moved around, such as kettles, vacuum cleaners, floor polishers, portable heaters, fans, desk lamps, some TVs, radios, some small electric cookers, PC projectors, small appliances such as irons, hair dryers and kitchen equipment including food mixers, toasters etc.

Larger items that could be moved (but only rarely), eg water chillers, fridges, microwaves, photocopiers, vending machines, washing machines, electric cookers, fax machines, desktop computers, electric beds etc are considered to be movable items.

Hand-held, hard-wired items, such as hairdryers, that do not have a plug but have been wired in (hard-wired / fixed). Such items are still treated as  portable appliances for testing purposes.

Mobile phone and other battery-charging equipment that is plugged into the mains (but the phones themselves and any other battery-operated equipment would not be included).

Extension leads, multi-way adaptors and connection leads. Earthed equipment and double insulated equipment When deciding whether to test electrical equipment, you need to consider the type of construction of the equipment in use.
There are two basic types of electrical equipment construction – Class I (earthed) and Class II (double insulated).