The phrase "averting risk" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to risk management, safety, or financial planning where the goal is to prevent or minimize potential dangers or losses.
Example: "The company's new safety protocols are focused on averting risk in the workplace to ensure employee well-being."
Alternatives: "mitigating risk" or "preventing risk".
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].
The agriculture, beverage, chemical and mining sectors all have vested interests in averting risks associated with water scarcity.
Vulnerability expresses the potential to suffer the consequences of a hazard and not necessarily to experience the actual suffering itself; Meze-Hausken (2000) demonstrates that people in potentially hazardous circumstances or marginal regions can succeed in averting risks and coping with disaster events by developing a great variety of adaptation mechanisms.
Mobility is key to transhumant pastoral systems, enabling herders to move their livestock at different points in time, exploring ecological niches provided by microclimates at different agro-ecological zones, efficiently utilizing available resources, averting risks and producing food from land with no opportunity costs.
"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.
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.
