"Patients can be reassured that their dentist is aware of the precautions recommended to minimise the risk, " he said.

BBC: Bacteria found in dentists' sprays

The banks apparently prefer to accept moderate levels of fraud, rather than invest in costly new technology or risk alienating their customers with additional security precautions.

ECONOMIST: Your flexible foe

If research can establish that is true, then it may be possible to screen infants and single out those at risk, so that parents can take suitable precautions.

ECONOMIST: Sudden infant death syndrome

Foster admitted two charges of failing to take reasonable fire precautions and failing to make a risk assessment at the Tannery flats on Buckrose Court between March and September 2009.

BBC: Jamie Kyne and Jan Wilson

American regulators have recently been taking more of a cost-benefit approach to risk, whereas Europeans are putting more emphasis on precautions, whatever the cost.

ECONOMIST: The price of prudence

The Broadcasting Code states that broadcasters must take precautions to maintain a low-level risk to viewers who have photosensitive epilepsy and should give warning if they do go ahead with such lighting.

BBC: X Factor rapped by Ofcom over CD promotion

The written risk assessments for the vessel's operation were also inadequate, and precautions which might have prevented the accident were not put into practice, it was found.

BBC: Criticism of fishing boat St Amant after death off Anglesey

But they also expressed frustration, saying that postal officials put workers at risk by failing to test workers and facilities earlier and by refusing to take greater precautions going forward.

CNN: Postal Service to offer Cipro to Manhattan postal workers

If business travelers are more at risk than the average traveler, it is because they are less likely to take the necessary precautions, Kozarsky says.

CNN: Business travelers exposed to health risks

The school failed to ensure that the students take precautions against ticks and allowed them to walk through dense woods known to be a risk area for tick-borne encephalitis and other tick- and insect-transmitted illnesses, Munn's attorneys said.

WSJ: Conn. school challenges $41.7M jury verdict

The school failed to ensure that the students take any precautions against ticks and allowed them to walk through a densely wooded area known to be a risk area for tick-borne encephalitis and other tick- and insect-transmitted illnesses, her attorneys said.

WSJ: Conn. student disabled on school trip wins $41.7M

In its list of precautions to returning evacuees, the city warns that people will be entering New Orleans at their own risk.

NPR: New Orleans Residents Return to a Changed City