diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index b07baafb..e5fde1e9 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 Package: batchtools
 Title: Tools for Computation on Batch Systems
-Version: 0.9.18
+Version: 0.9.19
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Michel", "Lang", , "michellang@gmail.com", role = c("cre", "aut"),
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-9754-0393")),
     person("Bernd", "Bischl", , "bernd_bischl@gmx.net", role = "aut"),
     person("Dirk", "Surmann", , "surmann@statistik.tu-dortmund.de", role = "ctb",
-           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0873-137X"))
+           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0873-137X")),
+    person("Lukas", "Burk", , "sgithub@quantenbrot.de", role = "ctb",
+           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-7528-3795"))
   )
 Description: As a successor of the packages 'BatchJobs' and
     'BatchExperiments', this package provides a parallel implementation of
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 281e5c35..59115f91 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# batchtools 0.9.19 
+
+* Fixed a bug in `Worker` initialization where the script path was not assigned for remote SSH hosts, causing `runOSCommand()` to fail with NULL argument.
+
 # batchtools 0.9.18
 
 * Fixed CRAN issues with documentation
diff --git a/R/Worker.R b/R/Worker.R
index 3436e5a1..42c5c50e 100644
--- a/R/Worker.R
+++ b/R/Worker.R
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ Worker = R6Class("Worker",
         if (!testString(script, min.chars = 1L)) {
           stopf("Unable to locate helper script on SSH node '%s'. Is batchtools installed on the node?", nodename)
         }
+        self$script = script
       }
 
       self$ncpus = ncpus %??% as.integer(private$run("number-of-cpus")$output)
diff --git a/R/runOSCommand.R b/R/runOSCommand.R
index c410c126..226b8458 100644
--- a/R/runOSCommand.R
+++ b/R/runOSCommand.R
@@ -30,9 +30,8 @@ runOSCommand = function(sys.cmd, sys.args = character(0L), stdin = "", nodename
 
   if (!isLocalHost(nodename)) {
     command = sprintf("%s %s", sys.cmd, stri_flatten(sys.args, " "))
-    if (getRversion() < "4.0.0") {
-      command = shQuote(command)
-    }
+    # The shQuote'ing appears to be necessary even on R >= 4.5
+    command = shQuote(command)
     command = stri_replace_all_fixed(command, "\\$", "$")
     sys.args = c("-q", nodename, command)
     sys.cmd = "ssh"