diff --git a/Changes.md b/Changes.md
index 0b10795a8..db2bf616c 100644
--- a/Changes.md
+++ b/Changes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 -----------
 
 - Auto-prune jobs older than one hour from the Workers page [#1508]
+- Add Sidekiq::Workers#prune which can perform the auto-pruning.
 - Fix issue where a job could be lost when an exception occurs updating
   Redis stats before the job executes [#1511]
 
diff --git a/lib/sidekiq/api.rb b/lib/sidekiq/api.rb
index 460b1b69b..1f8a8ac8c 100644
--- a/lib/sidekiq/api.rb
+++ b/lib/sidekiq/api.rb
@@ -424,9 +424,10 @@ def each(&block)
       Sidekiq.redis do |conn|
         workers = conn.smembers("workers")
         workers.each do |w|
-          msg, time = conn.mget("worker:#{w}", "worker:#{w}:started")
-          next unless msg
-          block.call(w, Sidekiq.load_json(msg), time)
+          json = conn.get("worker:#{w}")
+          next unless json
+          msg = Sidekiq.load_json(json)
+          block.call(w, msg, Time.at(msg['run_at']).to_s)
         end
       end
     end
@@ -436,6 +437,36 @@ def size
         conn.scard("workers")
       end.to_i
     end
+
+    # Prune old worker entries from the Busy set.  Worker entries
+    # can be orphaned if Sidekiq hard crashes while processing jobs.
+    # Default is to delete worker entries older than one hour.
+    #
+    # Returns the number of records removed.
+    def prune(older_than=60*60)
+      to_rem = []
+      Sidekiq.redis do |conn|
+        conn.smembers('workers').each do |w|
+          msg = conn.get("worker:#{w}")
+          if !msg
+            to_rem << w
+          else
+            m = Sidekiq.load_json(msg)
+            run_at = Time.at(m['run_at'])
+            # prune jobs older than one hour
+            if run_at < (Time.now - older_than)
+              to_rem << w
+            else
+            end
+          end
+        end
+      end
+
+      if to_rem.size > 0
+        Sidekiq.redis { |conn| conn.srem('workers', to_rem) }
+      end
+      to_rem.size
+    end
   end
 
 end
diff --git a/lib/sidekiq/web_helpers.rb b/lib/sidekiq/web_helpers.rb
index 3acecf2bb..36f02102c 100644
--- a/lib/sidekiq/web_helpers.rb
+++ b/lib/sidekiq/web_helpers.rb
@@ -47,38 +47,11 @@ def workers_size
       end
     end
 
-    MAX_JOB_DURATION = 60*60
-
     def workers
       @workers ||= begin
-        to_rem = []
-        workers = Sidekiq.redis do |conn|
-          conn.smembers('workers').map do |w|
-            msg = conn.get("worker:#{w}")
-            if !msg
-              to_rem << w
-              nil
-            else
-              m = Sidekiq.load_json(msg)
-              run_at = Time.at(m['run_at'])
-              # prune jobs older than one hour
-              if run_at < (Time.now - MAX_JOB_DURATION)
-                to_rem << w
-                nil
-              else
-                [w, m, run_at]
-              end
-            end
-          end.compact.sort { |x| x[1] ? -1 : 1 }
-        end
-
-        # Detect and clear out any orphaned worker records.
-        # These can be left in Redis if Sidekiq crashes hard
-        # while processing jobs.
-        if to_rem.size > 0
-          Sidekiq.redis { |conn| conn.srem('workers', to_rem) }
+        Sidekiq::Workers.new.tap do |w|
+          w.prune
         end
-        workers
       end
     end
 
diff --git a/test/test_api.rb b/test/test_api.rb
index c08e30315..e8ec16ce8 100644
--- a/test/test_api.rb
+++ b/test/test_api.rb
@@ -362,6 +362,22 @@ class ApiWorker
         assert_equal 'default', y['queue']
         assert_equal Time.now.year, DateTime.parse(z).year
       end
+
+      s = '12346'
+      data = Sidekiq.dump_json({ 'payload' => {}, 'queue' => 'default', 'run_at' => (Time.now.to_i - 2*60*60) })
+      Sidekiq.redis do |c|
+        c.multi do
+          c.sadd('workers', s)
+          c.set("worker:#{s}", data)
+          c.set("worker:#{s}:started", Time.now.to_s)
+          c.sadd('workers', '123457')
+        end
+      end
+
+      assert_equal 3, w.size
+      count = w.prune
+      assert_equal 1, w.size
+      assert_equal 2, count
     end
 
     it 'can reschedule jobs' do
diff --git a/web/views/_workers.erb b/web/views/_workers.erb
index d58966903..2e35d6b3e 100644
--- a/web/views/_workers.erb
+++ b/web/views/_workers.erb
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
       <td>
         <div class="args"><%= display_args(msg['payload']['args']) %></div>
       </td>
-      <td><%= relative_time(run_at) %></td>
+      <td><%= relative_time(run_at.is_a?(String) ? DateTime.parse(run_at) : run_at) %></td>
     </tr>
   <% end %>
 </table>