The phrase "avoid practices" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing behaviors or methods that one should refrain from engaging in, often in a professional or instructional context.
Example: "To ensure a safe work environment, it is essential to avoid practices that could lead to accidents or injuries."
Alternatives: "steer clear of methods" or "refrain from behaviors".
A major effort is needed to avoid practices that exacerbate the negative impacts of food production and consumption on climate, water and ecosystems.
The provisions which the government did suggest as a template were often ignored, and companies were able to avoid practices which would have been burdensome.
The IMS can give an important contribution to mitigate expected negative impacts and to avoid practices that might adversely influence community's perception.
Participants will receive free training materials and lessons so that they may follow the recommended SRI principles and practices and avoid practices that would disqualify them from the contest.
In the last two years, in part because Habitat for Humanity is interested in "green buildings," Brooklyn Woods has been using materials like bamboo, a fast-growing and thus rapidly renewable wood, and domestic hardwoods supplied by companies that avoid practices like clear-cutting forests.
One of the workers, Valentin Esteban, is on the front lines of the new effort, having gone through a training program that helps him avoid practices that lead to possible bacterial contamination that could undermine the safety and quality of the strawberries he picks.
These days, many boat racers avoid practicing in the lake.
By the beginning of seventh grade, though, Greg's interest in sports had waned, and he was frequently making elaborate excuses to avoid practice.
The piano is one thing to a pianist, another to a piano tuner, another to an interior designer with no interest in music, and yet another to a child who wants to avoid practicing.
Neil Macrae, Alan Milne, and Galen Bodenhausen conducted just this study in 1994, except that they had different people in the "no-label-given" and the "label-given" conditions to avoid practice effects.
However, following Taguchi (2008a), Taguchi (2008b), Riddifford and Joe (2010), and Riddiford and Holmes (2015), each time the discourse completion task was administered, the order of scenarios was changed to avoid practice effect.
