diff --git a/queue_job/jobrunner/runner.py b/queue_job/jobrunner/runner.py
index 0a633b45e9..416fbbac91 100644
--- a/queue_job/jobrunner/runner.py
+++ b/queue_job/jobrunner/runner.py
@@ -330,6 +330,11 @@ def select_jobs(self, where, args):
             cr.execute(query, args)
             return list(cr.fetchall())
 
+    def keep_alive(self):
+        query = "SELECT 1"
+        with closing(self.conn.cursor()) as cr:
+            cr.execute(query)
+
     def set_job_enqueued(self, uuid):
         with closing(self.conn.cursor()) as cr:
             cr.execute("UPDATE queue_job SET state=%s, "
@@ -408,6 +413,12 @@ def run_jobs(self):
 
     def process_notifications(self):
         for db in self.db_by_name.values():
+            if not db.conn.notifies:
+                # If there are no activity in the queue_job table it seems that
+                # tcp keepalives are not sent (in that very specific scenario),
+                # causing some intermediaries (such as haproxy) to close the
+                # connection, making the jobrunner to restart on a socket error
+                db.keep_alive()
             while db.conn.notifies:
                 if self._stop:
                     break
diff --git a/queue_job/readme/CONTRIBUTORS.rst b/queue_job/readme/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
index 63d1d390a4..e049f26f52 100644
--- a/queue_job/readme/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
+++ b/queue_job/readme/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@
 * Laurent Mignon <laurent.mignon@acsone.eu>
 * Laetitia Gangloff <laetitia.gangloff@acsone.eu>
 * Cédric Pigeon <cedric.pigeon@acsone.eu>
+* Souheil Bejaoui <souheil.bejaoui@acsone.eu>
+* Georg A. G. Notter<georg.notter@agenterp.com>