The phrase "avert risk" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to express the action of preventing or avoiding potential dangers or negative outcomes.
Example: "The company implemented new safety protocols to avert risk in the workplace."
Alternatives: "mitigate risk" or "reduce risk".
"The Kremlin, of course, and Putin personally, is trying to avert risk, to minimize the risks even if they are not too high".
But the scarcity of first-rate contemporary art (or what collectors think is first-rate contemporary art) gives ultra-high-net-worth sellers distinct leverage to avert risk and maximise profit.
But critics pointed out that rational people might not behave that way: rather than avert risk, people might instead gamble by calling for society to maximize the income of the richest.
We are over-optimistic, over-emotional, too readily influenced by the way a recent event has framed our thinking, too anxious to avert risk rather than seize opportunity for no other reason than this is where fast, intuitive System 1 thinking takes us.
But African-Americans, liberals, Democrats, people who do not make much money and those who live in the Northeast were, the study found, "much more likely to see the police, rather than Harris, as the source of the danger posed by the flight and to find the deliberate ramming of Harris's vehicle unnecessary to avert risk to the public".
However, much of public health regulation is not primarily directed to avert risk to others, but to safeguard the health and safety of the individual him- or herself.
To avert risks of famines and floods, people tried to grow more than required for consumption and stored them for potential natural calamities.
Herd diversification is a practice by pastoralists where different types of livestock are kept to basically avert risks associated with disease and drought.
The plaintiffs claimed Citi assured them that it had sold billions of dollars in C.D.O.'s, thus averting risk to investors.
Prevention of lead exposure is key to averting risk, so engineering solutions, dust monitoring of industrial sites, and lowering environmental pollution all show promise in this regard.
Alternatively, countries could substitute regular VCT for an intensive level of VCT with better quality to enhance the effectiveness of VCT on averting risk populations from HIV infection [ 14].
