diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 3b9fa666..30498a6c 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -13,3 +13,5 @@ Chris Dent <chris.dent@gmail.com>
 Matt Good <matt@matt-good.net>
 Randall Leeds <randall.leeds@gmail.com>
 thomasst <http://github.com/thomasst>
+Jonas Borgström <http://github.com/jborg>
+
diff --git a/gunicorn/workers/base.py b/gunicorn/workers/base.py
index cf2d52d4..e87f2939 100644
--- a/gunicorn/workers/base.py
+++ b/gunicorn/workers/base.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 import logging
 import os
+import random
 import signal
 import sys
 import tempfile
@@ -82,6 +83,9 @@ class Worker(object):
         """
         util.set_owner_process(self.cfg.uid, self.cfg.gid)
 
+        # Reseed the random number generator
+        random.seed()
+
         # For waking ourselves up
         self.PIPE = os.pipe()
         map(util.set_non_blocking, self.PIPE)