diff --git a/queue_job/jobrunner/runner.py b/queue_job/jobrunner/runner.py
index 85996b98f3..afd28d2ad5 100644
--- a/queue_job/jobrunner/runner.py
+++ b/queue_job/jobrunner/runner.py
@@ -321,6 +321,11 @@ def select_jobs(self, where, args):
             cr.execute(query, args)
             yield cr
 
+    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(
@@ -433,6 +438,12 @@ 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 46215f69cf..9694c9654a 100644
--- a/queue_job/readme/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
+++ b/queue_job/readme/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 * Laetitia Gangloff <laetitia.gangloff@acsone.eu>
 * Cédric Pigeon <cedric.pigeon@acsone.eu>
 * Tatiana Deribina <tatiana.deribina@avoin.systems>
+* Souheil Bejaoui <souheil.bejaoui@acsone.eu>