diff --git a/nvidia-gpu-operator/overlays/nerc-ocp-prod/clusterpolicy/clusterpolicy_patch.yaml b/nvidia-gpu-operator/overlays/nerc-ocp-prod/clusterpolicy/clusterpolicy_patch.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..22772ef9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nvidia-gpu-operator/overlays/nerc-ocp-prod/clusterpolicy/clusterpolicy_patch.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+apiVersion: nvidia.com/v1
+kind: ClusterPolicy
+metadata:
+  name: gpu-cluster-policy
+spec:
+  toolkit:
+    env:
+      - name: ACCEPT_NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES_ENVVAR_WHEN_UNPRIVILEGED
+        value: 'false'
diff --git a/nvidia-gpu-operator/overlays/nerc-ocp-prod/kustomization.yaml b/nvidia-gpu-operator/overlays/nerc-ocp-prod/kustomization.yaml
index b74f253a..82f51e70 100644
--- a/nvidia-gpu-operator/overlays/nerc-ocp-prod/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/nvidia-gpu-operator/overlays/nerc-ocp-prod/kustomization.yaml
@@ -3,3 +3,5 @@ kind: Kustomization
 namespace: nvidia-gpu-operator
 resources:
   - ../../base
+patches:
+  - path: clusterpolicy/clusterpolicy_patch.yaml