[efraim]

The risk of missing a lift would still be the same since they would just try to lift heavier weights.

[charsifood]

They would only try to lift heavier than their competition, so there's an artificial limit on how heavy one would go.

But the real crux of the situation is this: For a given individual, on every possible lift and every possible weight, it is always safer to use anabolic steroids than not.