The phrase "while preventing" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example: The company took steps to keep their employees safe while preventing the spread of the virus.
Surely there is a way to create a system that can do the former while preventing the latter.
Instead, it's a means to preserve diversity while preventing fragmentation.
How Diane manages to cash in, while preventing her client coming out, motors the plot.
So far, four people have been killed in clashes while preventing the police from making arrests.
payment increases while preventing passage of a strong patients' bill of rights".
While preventing suicides is a universally difficult task, it is particularly challenging in Japan.
The law's goal should be to facilitate good modifications, while preventing bad ones.
Such a response would have permitted all economically sensible mortgage modifications, while preventing any tax windfalls.
The adsorbed aptamer was able to bind the target while preventing non-specific interactions.
Staged milling produced powders with the best degree of refinement while preventing intermetallic reactions during milling.
Breastfeeding ensures the best trajectory for development and growth while preventing many diseases later in life.
