The phrase "avoidable danger" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or risk that can be prevented or mitigated through certain actions or precautions.
Example: "By implementing safety protocols, we can significantly reduce the avoidable danger associated with the construction site."
Alternatives: "preventable risk" or "unnecessary hazard".
To me, HIV and AIDS were avoidable but ever-present dangers, and if I acquired HIV, it would be because I personally failed to protect myself.
Think of such situations as slow-moving trains: potentially dangerous but if you take the danger seriously and act sensibly, avoidable.
Of course, danger feels even less avoidable now than it did in 1999.
The Australian virologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet, who won the Nobel Prize in 1960 for his work in immunology, has described "active and avoidable genetic deterioration" as "the last and greatest danger to our civilization".
In the worst cases, as with the man whose angiogram caused otherwise avoidable strokes, we increase the odds of unnecessarily putting patients in danger.
Encouraging passengers to be more aware of their surroundings, particularly when they have had a drink, and to be alert to the inherent dangers that exist in stations will, we hope, reduce avoidable slips and falls across the network".
They may hog all the headlines, but the real health dangers to international travelers are much more mundane and often avoidable.
Unless the new Pope installs a policy that minimises danger to children, he, like Benedict, will become complicit in ongoing but avoidable abuse.
The claim by the chair of the Morecambe Bay inquiry (pdf) that the NHS risks "another avoidable disaster" by failing to implement the recommendations in his report highlights the dangers of using inquiries to drive service improvements.
Jamie now spends much of her time speaking about the dangers of texting behind the wheel and teaches students, in particular, that these tragedies are completely avoidable.
