diff --git a/config/initializers/assets.rb b/config/initializers/assets.rb
index e710a9771b..6ba26c8ae6 100644
--- a/config/initializers/assets.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/assets.rb
@@ -15,3 +15,10 @@
   #{__dir__}/../../node_modules/govuk-frontend/
   #{__dir__}/../../node_modules/
 ]
+
+# We've experienced segmentation faults when pre-compiling assets with libsass.
+# Disabling Sprockets 4's export_concurrent setting seems to resolve the issues
+# see: https://github.com/rails/sprockets/issues/633
+Rails.application.config.assets.configure do |env|
+  env.export_concurrent = false
+end